These figures only refer to the capacity of each school and do not even consider the staffing crisis within schools, where we know recruitment targets are missed year after year.
We urgently need a child poverty strategy setting out clear policy objectives to tackle the prevalence of child poverty.
ASCL, Community, NAHT, NASUWT and NEU have issued a united call for a fully funded, inflation-plus pay increase to tackle the recruitment and retention crisis.
Unless this and any future Government addresses teacher pay, workload and school funding we shall only see the teacher recruitment and retention crisis deepen.
This Government’s solution to its failure to hit its own teacher training targets is to move the goalposts.
Schools do all they can to address their students needs but they do so with increasingly dwindling or non existent support.
The National Council – the independent sector is an elected member group that helps organise and promote the engagement of members working in the independent sector.
The Support Staff National Council (SSNC) is the main representative body for support staff within the National Education Union.
Alongside local structures, members are organised into some sector specific and equality sections.
NEU Cymru considers legal action over CSL’s shock use of agency staff
Today and tomorrow (12th-13th March 2024), teacher members of the National Education Union are again taking strike action at The Cathedral School, Llandaff, after the disappointing offer on pay and pensions from their employer.
NEU Cymru will today open its preliminary electronic ballot over pay, funding, and the school year.
