Health and safety in schools and colleges
A quick guide for members on health and safety in the education workplace
A quick guide for members on health and safety in the education workplace
The childcare disqualification arrangements automatically disqualify a person from providing, or working in, childcare at the point they are convicted of or cautioned for specified offences or where they meet other disqualification criteria set out in the regulations.
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks are designed to help employers determine your suitability for appointment.
An initial section of guidance on term-time working has now been agreed between the local government employers and the recognised trade unions.
Advice on a range of issues from pay, terms and conditions, employment rights, health and safety, and pensions. Your first point of contact for advice and support at work should be your workplace rep.
We represent more teachers and support staff working in independent schools than any other union.
Climate change is real and is threatening our future. It is our young generations that will lose the most if it is not addressed now.
We will support members opposing any proposal to remove teachers’ membership of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) or enforce pay cuts to pay for the pension.
The NEU represents support staff members across the UK in the maintained, academy, free school, independent, further education, sixth form and university sectors.
Pay scales for support staff. Most support staff are employed on the local government pay scales determined by the NJC for local government services.
The daily rates for supply teachers employed by local authorities or schools at each STPCD pay scale point.
Teachers' pay and working conditions in sixth form colleges are decided in negotiations with the Sixth Form Colleges’ Association; the NEU leads the teachers’ side in negotiations.