Government slammed for dropping the long-awaited teaching assistants standards
Government slammed for dropping the long-awaited teaching assistants standards
After a debate on standards for TAs in parliament the government set up a review panel to look at producing new standards. UNISON was represented by HLTA Karen […]
UNISON condemns ‘an insult to teaching assistants who are stretched to the limit’
Undoubtedly Universities will argue that they don’t receive enough money from the government – and they’d be right to say that – but that’s simply no excuse for a pay settlement that […]
Now the union is calling on the government to provide schools with sufficient funding so they are appropriately staffed, and for urgent […]
Local government workers facing coronavirus risks and pressures
“Delay to government professional standards document has been a step back for a profession that has been largely neglected by the government since 2010”
Government should let UNISON go ahead and publish professional standards
EPSU general secretary Jan Willem Goudriaan’s message to UNISON’s local government conference was that we could change Europe for the betterment of the majority of its people
UNISON in local government UNISON in […]
UNISON survey reveals huge rise in numbers doing higher-grade work as teachers fall ill or fail to get tests
UNISON has criticised the government’s approach to teaching assistants and stressed the need for more examples of good practice of how they are trained and deployed
New pay proposal from the county council overwhelmingly rejected: UNISON wil lmove to a vote on strike action, with ballot papers being despatched to classroom support workers early next week
New law threatens to gag charities, NGOs, blogs, think-tanks, trade unions and other campaigning organisations by severely restricting how much money they can spend on political campaigning in the year running up to a general election
Unless the government gets their act together, many of these invaluable public servants will leave their jobs – and […]