Large cuts are looming at the TBAP multi-academy trust, which runs schools in London, Essex, Cambridgeshire and the North West, following accusations of financial mismanagement.
Large cuts are looming at the TBAP multi-academy trust, which runs schools in London, Essex, Cambridgeshire and the North West, following accusations of financial mismanagement.
Angela Rayner addresses UNISON’s national delegate conference
Since 2015, £2.8 billion has been cut from school budgets. The average primary school has lost £45,400 in funding and the average secondary school […]
The government careers strategy is a missed opportunity to pull together an effective and coherent careers service.
The service group executive's view on the offer is that it is the best to be achieved by negotiation and that […]
An academy chain with schools in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and Humberside has announced today (Thursday) that as many as 40 support staff could face redundancy over plans to cut budgets. The David Ross Education Trust launched a consultation exercise earlier today over proposals to cut nearly £1m in funding from its 32 primary […]
Our message is clear and my position is the same as our members: the council must negotiate – massive pay cuts for school support staff cannot be the answer
If this Tory government really cared about making our country fairer and more prosperous then decent pay for education workers would be one of their top priorities.
Derby City Council are trying to switch school support staff from full time to term-time contracts, in a move that will have a significantly […]
More than half of classroom or teaching assistants (53%) across the UK have experienced physical violence at school in the past year, according to new figures published by UNISON today (Tuesday). In addition, three-quarters (76%) of the teaching assistants who took part in a survey for the public service union said they had witnessed violence at […]
Commenting on the decision today (Thursday) by the Academies Transformation Trust (ATT) to announce jobs cuts and a major restructuring across its secondary and primary schools in the East and West Midlands, and the East of England, UNISON head of education Jon Richards said: “This decision has come as a bolt from the blue, and […]
Award celebrates activist who has made greatest contribution to Gateshead branch and its members
From this April, all learning support workers in Wales will be required to be registered with the Education Workforce Council (EWC). The […]
Many UNISON members will be keeping the country going over Christmas and the new year
Lots of plans are underway with schools holding awards ceremonies, putting on special assemblies and even dressing up as super heroes […]