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Latest Education Policy Institute report confirms unions’ warning over effects of new National Funding Formula

Government needs to ‘properly recognise the value of careers professionals’ says UNISON after minister’s speech on service strategy for England

Teaching assistants, school supervisors, admin staff and other support workers striking between 7am and 1pm every day this week

UNISON members can help teaching union NASUWT with its annual survey into the true cost of education for families

School support staff – the numbers

The government announced plans earlier this autumn to change the way it funds “early years” or preschool services, which would mean less money for nursery […]

General secretary pledges support as 1,200 Co Durham teaching assistants rally on second day of strike

Derby council changed school support staff’s terms and conditions in June after they were moved onto term-time only […]

UNISON condemns possible creation of new selective schools

Debates see delegates back a range of measures on pay, academies, funding and much more

‘We all live 12 months of the year’ and need to paid for 12 months, local government conference delegates hear

Threatened cuts to pay for teaching assistants in the North East have been condemned by UNISON. Staff in Durham schools could lose up to £5,000 a year under council proposals to introduce term-time only contracts from September 2016.

UNISON member Kathy Harwood has been named Teaching Assistant of the Year for her dedication to helping children with a variety of health problems

A while ago our head teacher took retirement and a new one joined the school. There were various changes and staff morale dropped. Then it was announced that within a few months the role of most […]

Government slammed for dropping the long-awaited teaching assistants standards