Inclusive recruitment practices and supportive leadership would improve the whole workforce and wider system.
The NEU is backing three proposals from Tax Justice UK as to how greater funding for schools could be found through achievable, credible tax reforms.
These cuts will lead to schools shedding subjects, losing support staff, and cutting back on basic maintenance to balance the books.
On Monday 9 June sixth form college teacher members will open an indicative ballot in support of their 2025/26 pay claim.
To reverse entrenched teacher shortages, the Government must invest properly in education.
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.
Academy trusts and all publicly funded providers of education must be required to employ staff on minimum standards that are set out nationally.
Every workplace should have a disability leave policy alongside a sickness absence policy so that education workers are not penalised for being Disabled.
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.
