Press releases

Today four education unions have written to the Secretary of State outlining their concerns about the inadequate and underfunded pay recommendation.

NEU Cymru members will be pleased to see that there is more in-year funding to support the education system.

This report is right to highlight the enormous gulf between Government spending on SEND in recent years, and the amount needed to meet actual and growing demand.

Rather than ‘ready for school’, the route to improving children’s outcomes is better investment in the early years sector.

This swift response is a good starting point for helping schools.

You get what you pay, for and the decimation of the arts in state schools is evidence of just that.

Government must reduce how many children are living in poverty, and break the cycle.

NEU sixth form members have voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking strike action in their dispute over pay and funding.

The additional funding announced today is a welcome injection, but still falls short of what is needed to rebuild education, including the investment needed to reverse pay cuts and tackle sky high workload.

Educators suffered huge pay cuts under the Conservatives. Investing properly in education, including reversing the pay cuts, is essential to delivering the economic growth the Prime Minister talked about.

The education sector has been devastated by fourteen years of neglect and mismanagement leaving the new Government a mountain to climb.

Labour are right to acknowledge that we need to be investing in school buildings. This £1.4 billion is a welcome first step, but more is needed.