Labour commit to restore School Support Staff Negotiating Body (12 Sep 2023)
UNISON helps found new coalition for childcare and early education (12 Sep 2023)
School budgets reach breaking point, so UNISON members are taking action (1 Jun 2023)
Energy bills see schools pull back on ventilation and CO2 monitoring (1 Dec 2022)
Education plans won’t work if support staff are ignored (24 May 2022)
Plan to provide early years education on the cheap will hit children and staff (24 May 2022)
UNISON slates government over school funding shortages (25 Apr 2022)
Forced academisation threat for schools is stopped (2 Mar 2022)
Children with special needs feeling the brunt of staffing shortages (10 Feb 2022)
Academy orders issued to schools in Hallam Diocese ‘unlawfully’(9 Feb 2022)
School support staff finally included in wellbeing charter (1 Dec 2021)
New toolkit highlights positive impact of teaching assistants (13 Oct 2021)
Council staff who kept services and schools running deserve a real pay rise (27 Jul 2021)
UNISON has its own website dedicated to professional development for school support staff – Skills for Schools – and played a key role in developing professional standards for teaching assistants.
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