Press releases

The teaching apprenticeship programme is an acknowledgement of the crisis in teacher recruitment but is the wrong way to address it.

This money does not get anywhere near what is needed to ensure our settings are well-staffed and ready for funded hour expansion. 

The proposed model for AP has flaws which will benefit neither young people nor the staff working with them.

Our members will be pleased to see that the new model of school improvement will have reducing workload and increasing funding going to schools at its heart.

Improving representation means changing school cultures.

NEU Cymru members at Pencoedtre High School in Barry to take strike action over school’s inability to tackle student behaviour

These proposals need to help to create parity of esteem between vocational and academic qualifications.

This report suggests some important changes but does not grasp the true scale of the problem.

These figures should be a wake-up call to government to look at the wider issues affecting attendance.

1 in 8 schools were in deficit at the end of the financial year 2022-23.

Early Years education is vitally important but Early Years policy is heading in the wrong direction.

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.