Formal postal ballot
Executive plans for a formal ballot to Save Education - opening 3 October.
Support staff: right to join the NEU
With the outcome of special conference being to actively recruit, new guidance is available for officers and reps on collective bargaining, industrial action and representing support staff in the workplace.
Press releases
Advice
Joint union heatwave protocol
Recent years have shown that increasing extremes of weather are becoming more and more common.
Hot weather and classroom temperature
Hot summers bring regular queries about the maximum temperatures under which staff and pupils should be expected to work in schools.
Pay scales
Salary scales for teachers, support staff and leaders in schools and colleges in England and Wales.
Union journals
Educate July-August 2026
Members demand DfE steps in at debt-ridden trust plus: win on social media ban for under-16s; ‘horrific’ immigration policy harming US schools; NEU Trust fund helping members in tough times.
Lead. magazine spring 2026
Assistant principal Akeim Mundell talks success, plus: debates, discussion, votes from annual conference, a head’s experience of the new Ofsted framework, white paper woes - high on ambition, short on funding.
Get involved
Reps' hub
Resources for NEU reps to use in schools and colleges.
Become a rep
The more workplace based reps we have, the stronger the National Education Union will be. Why not become a rep in your school or college?