Search Results for “Pay and conditions” tagged speaking up for teaching assistants

The registration fee is an annual payment of £15 per person. As the union for school support staff, UNISON has been campaigning for […]

Although the government has backtracked on plans to phase out teaching and classroom assistants, some government sources are still trying to discredit them by misusing […]

And in Glasgow, school support workers took industrial action to prevent them from having to deal with […]

UNISON calling for support and training for those in vital school role

We were dismayed by the decision not to publish and pointed out that the Department for Education has recently issued professional standards for head […]

“We need more classroom assistants, but the school can’t afford to pay them. “I went to this school myself. In those days it was fantastic, but now it’s changed […]

“We need more classroom assistants, but the school can’t afford to pay them. “I went to this school myself. In those days it was fantastic, but now it’s changed […]

Award celebrates activist who has made greatest contribution to Gateshead branch and its members

In a blog for Left Foot Forward, the union's head of education and children's services, Jon Richards, said that the union has contributed to a forthcoming report by […]

The employer has also given a commitment to provide specialist training and to update its policies and procedures on the supervision and administration of medication. UNISON […]

Working with the National Education Trust, the union is developing a career framework and professional standards for teaching assistants and yesterday, a group of them met shadow […]

And it was the sort of assured performance that utterly belied her status as a conference newbie […]

While this role does not exist as such in Scotland, classroom assistants (and similar job titles) undertake a huge and varied range of tasks in […]

"Schools could not run today without the work of teaching assistants. They help children learn and develop but their role is often not understood or recognised. "TAs often work long, unpaid hours […]

Anne Speed, UNISON Northern Ireland's Head of Bargaining and Representation, said: "Classroom assistants are a class act and schools […]