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Campaign highlights school support staff, the Stars in our Schools

We know it’s hard graft working in a school these days so UNISON takes this one day a year to celebrate all that you do. Without you our […]

Learning support workers or teaching assistants do all those vital but unheralded jobs in our schools

UNISON Caerphilly branch secretary Gary Enright said: “This is fantastic news and we are so pleased the council has been persuaded by the strength of UNISON’s argument. “In a […]

Neath Port Talbot set to pay as registration fees for school support staff as UNISON campaign continues

UNISON will now use this momentum to encourage remaining authorities to pay registration fees also […]

Unfortunately for Melinda, and those who care about our school system – it appears that diktats from the centre are exactly how this government […]

Government plans to force all schools in England to become academies are just one issue facing support staff

More than half (52%) of school support staff across the UK have experienced stress, anxiety or depression as they struggle to cope with their workloads, according to a new survey published today (Tuesday) by UNISON. Two-fifths (41.5%) of those who took part in the survey said they had difficulty in completing their work, and more […]

And it’s time this was tackled head on. A new UNISON survey has revealed that more than half (52%) […]

Schools affected across the city as 500 protest outside Council House over imposed changes to contracts

If this Tory government really cared about making our country fairer and more prosperous then decent pay for education workers would be one of their top priorities.

Derby council changed school support staff’s terms and conditions in June after they were moved onto term-time only contracts […]

Anyone can get involved in helping to organise a Stars in Our Schools event. Last year, hundreds of schools across the country organised events to celebrate a […]

Durham teaching assistants – who have just one week left to vote for strike action in the long-running dispute over cuts to their pay – are to hold a major rally today (Thursday). Durham County Council is proposing to move teaching assistants to term-time pay, and extend the working week without paying for any extra […]