Academies

UNISON is the biggest union for school support and professional staff in the country. We have about 250,000 members working in schools in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Our members also work in academies in England and include teaching assistants, school business managers, librarians, secretaries, technicians, nursery staff, administrators, learning mentors, cleaners, caretakers and school meals workers – and many more who support pupils’ learning, and the running and maintenance of the school.

We have recognition agreements with several national sponsors of academies and also negotiate with individual academies.

UNISON wants to see the work of support and professional staff being properly recognised. We are fighting for:

• decent pay and conditions
• all staff with the same academy sponsor to have a national pay structure
• a career structure that recognises increasing responsibilities
• support staff to have access to training
• training budgets for support staff that are properly allocated at the planning stage - not just an afterthought
• all our members to be treated with respect and valued in the same way as teachers

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