General Secretary’s speech 2025 Date: 17/04/2025 Daniel Kebede’s address to Annual Conference 2025 in Harrogate. NEU2025
Health and safety in education – learning from Grenfell Date: 17/04/2025 We must learn the lessons of Grenfell and other deaths as a result of political choices to underfund, ignore and delay. NEU2025 Health and safety School environment
Defending and extending members' rights at work Date: 17/04/2025 The Government should repeal the Conservatives’ anti-union legislation at the earliest opportunity, as part of its plan to make work pay. NEU2025 Rights at work
Professional unity Date: 17/04/2025 Our profession would be stronger if there was one union for all. NEU2025
Solidarity with Ukraine Date: 17/04/2025 Russia’s invasion of, and war against, Ukraine has been a war on Ukraine’s children. NEU2025 International
State of education: Pupil poverty Date: 17/04/2025 A government calling for ‘high and rising standards’ cannot at the same time stand idly by in the face of high and rising rates of child poverty. NEU2025 Child poverty
The need to recruit and retain disabled workers in the education sector Date: 16/04/2025 NEU2025 Disability
End the freedom of academy trusts to worsen pay and conditions Date: 16/04/2025 Academy trusts and all publicly funded providers of education must be required to employ staff on minimum standards that are set out nationally. Academies NEU2025 Rights at work
Violence in the education sector Date: 16/04/2025 There is an increase in behaviour that challenges, and education staff are bearing the brunt of it. NEU2025 Behaviour Health and safety
Mandatory adoption of the Burgundy Book for all schools and academies Date: 16/04/2025 The government must mandate the incorporation of the National Conditions of Service for Teachers in England and Wales 2023 into the contracts of employment of all teachers in academies. NEU2025 Rights at work
Unfair treatment of OTTs - a call for change Date: 16/04/2025 The exploitative treatment of overseas trained teachers (OTTs) in this country needs to be addressed. NEU2025 Equality
Work-related stress Date: 16/04/2025 To turn the page on the education recruitment and retention crisis we need to address the many causes of teacher and support staff work-related stress NEU2025 Stress