Press releases

Sister of Ruth Perry alongside coalition of education sector representatives, calls for delay to rushed Ofsted reforms

Daniel Kebede’s address to Annual Conference 2025 in Harrogate.

We must learn the lessons of Grenfell and other deaths as a result of political choices to underfund, ignore and delay.

The Government should repeal the Conservatives’ anti-union legislation at the earliest opportunity, as part of its plan to make work pay.

Our profession would be stronger if there was one union for all.

Russia’s invasion of, and war against, Ukraine has been a war on Ukraine’s children.

A government calling for ‘high and rising standards’ cannot at the same time stand idly by in the face of high and rising rates of child poverty.

Every workplace should have a disability leave policy alongside a sickness absence policy so that education workers are not penalised for being Disabled.

Academy trusts and all publicly funded providers of education must be required to employ staff on minimum standards that are set out nationally.

There is an increase in behaviour that challenges, and education staff are bearing the brunt of it.

The government must mandate the incorporation of the National Conditions of Service for Teachers in England and Wales 2023 into the contracts of employment of all teachers in academies.

The exploitative treatment of overseas trained teachers (OTTs) in this country needs to be addressed.