Press releases

Clearly, the best place for students is in school but there are many factors causing our current absence figures.

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.

We urgently need a child poverty strategy setting out clear policy objectives to tackle the prevalence of child poverty.

ASCL, Community, NAHT, NASUWT and NEU have issued a united call for a fully funded, inflation-plus pay increase to tackle the recruitment and retention crisis.

Unless this and any future Government addresses teacher pay, workload and school funding we shall only see the teacher recruitment and retention crisis deepen.

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

This Government’s solution to its failure to hit its own teacher training targets is to move the goalposts.

"Disappointment and consternation" at response to Education Select Committee report into the inspectorate.

Only root and branch reform will end the tyranny of the inspection regime and the climate of fear it creates.

Spring Budget throws education Into further crisis.

Fair pay is not just a request, but a necessity. Schools deserve proper funding for staffing provision - and the necessary funding to cover a pay rise.

The NEU’s written evidence to the STRB sets out the overwhelming evidence in support of the NEU’s call for a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise that constitutes a meaningful step towards a long-term correction in teacher pay.