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Fledgling MP Rosie Duffield has a very personal reason for supporting UNISON’s Stars in our Schools celebrations

The statement highlights the vital role that school support staff have played during the pandemic, the woeful response of the government to the cost of […]

Help celebrate our school support staff on social media at noon on 24 November

And that is why she is joining UNISON in celebrating Stars in Our Schools – one day in the year when we celebrate the school support staff who work so hard to make our […]

Last Friday schools up and down the UK celebrated school support staff as part of UNISON’s Stars in Our Schools day

General secretary pledges support as 1,200 Co Durham teaching assistants rally on second day of strike

School support staff travel from Derby to Westminster to lobby MPs over 25% pay cut

Unless the government gets their act together, many of these invaluable public servants will leave their jobs – and their skills and talents will be lost to schools and children alike.

UNISON believes these findings highlight a crisis in health and well-being engulfing schools, which could lead to a mass exodus of hardworking, dedicated staff […]

Campaign highlights school support staff, the Stars in our Schools

Education workers in Northern Ireland are not prepared to sit and wait while you sort out all the political problems […]

The deal has been struck with Edsential – a community interest company owned by Cheshire West and Wirral councils, which provides support services across the education sector in the two council […]

UNISON survey launched to find out what school meals staff have to say

Strike action by Derby school support staff is to be suspended following a new offer from the city council, UNISON has announced today (Friday). UNISON will now recommend that its members across the city’s schools accept the offer. That offer will now be put to staff, and if they vote to accept the deal, the […]

Talks aimed at settling the long-running Derby City Council school support staff strike are to be held tomorrow (Thursday). Negotiations through the conciliation service ACAS will happen at the request of UNISON as it seeks to reach an agreement to end the nine-month dispute. School support staff will be staging a sit-in today, (Wednesday) in […]