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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 […]

The union represents more than 600,000 staff working in local government or in outsourced services such as social care. UNISON head of local government Jon Richards […]

Ministers are entirely responsible for the funding crisis that’s putting schools in this impossible position.

“Delay to government professional standards document has been a step back for a profession that has been largely neglected by the government since 2010”

Under the last government UNISON set up a teaching assistant forum, to identify key priorities. The forum identified the need […]

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

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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

 "We know the Bill is a cynical attempt to stop those who have complaints about the coalition government and their policies from being able to voice them in the run up to the 2015 general election […]