Press releases

We expect schools, colleges and settings to be accessible for all staff and students.

Our members should not be penalised for sickness absence where working arrangements have not been adjusted to accommodate their needs.

Schools work carefully to engage and communicate with parents and carers appropriately, but the Government is making the job of schools harder not easier.

We should be developing a curriculum for children and young people that supports the democratic values of a diverse Britain.

These figures only refer to the capacity of each school and do not even consider the staffing crisis within schools, where we know recruitment targets are missed year after year.

Schools do all they can to address their students needs but they do so with increasingly dwindling or non existent support.

Sexism in schools is symptomatic of gender inequality across our society.

Our current school system works against disadvantaged students in almost every way.

Improving representation means changing school cultures.

We need a concerted effort to address the SEND funding crisis as well as tackling child poverty and the extreme impact that it has on children and young people's capacity to maintain regular attendance.

It is important to underline that schools do not need to change their current policies at this stage.

Our Union supports the growing call for safe passage as a compassionate alternative.