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In addition, three-quarters (76%) of the teaching assistants who took part in a survey for the public […]

Leaders of academy schools are spending taxpayers’ money

UNISON members working in Derby City Schools have lost 25% of their pay, up to £400 per month, and they need your support for strike action.

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.

UNISON’s higher education service group executive is recommending that members vote 'yes' for strike action in the vote […]

Friday 9 September 2016 For immediate release Commenting on the prime minister’s speech about grammar schools today (Friday), UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: “The country may be under new management, but the Conservative Party’s obsession with grammar schools remains the same. “Grammar schools are outdated relics, removed in most parts of the country for very good reason […]

Everyone deserves to go to a good school – regardless of their background or their academic ability. That simply won’t be achieved by stacking even greater advantage and privilege in the hands of a few schools to the detriment of everyone else.

UNISON held a consultative ballot over council plans to move 2,700 classroom assistants onto term-time contracts […]

Members in English further education have until 4 November to respond to the consultation on the employers’ ‘first and final’ pay offer

Almost 1,700 classroom assistants across the county are members of UNISON. They are in dispute with the council over its decision to slash their pay by as much as 23% […]

Durham County Council is proposing to move teaching assistants to term-time pay, and extend the working […]

Stars in Our Schools day is almost upon us, what have you planned?

UNISON joins fellow unions, charities and others involved in early years education to sign open letter

Waverley is a school for children with disabilities. There are 115 pupils from age three to 19, with varying physical […]

More than 100 primary schools across County Durham will be affected tomorrow (Wednesday) and Thursday as teaching assistants strike for a second time in a long-running dispute over cuts to their pay. School support staff plan to protest at dozens of picket lines across the county over the two days. This will mean the closure […]