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94% of teachers and 97% of support staff respondents believe that poverty or low income affects learning.

The majority of teachers are struggling with workload.

A quarter of respondents say they have no access to CAMHS for their students and 80% say that excessive workload is a barrier to getting the right help for their pupils.

The State of Education survey gauges the views of working teacher, support staff and school leader NEU members in England and Wales.

The NEU values the early years sector. It’s about time the government did too.

The NEU will continue putting pressure on the Government to live up to its commitments to reduce workload and working hours

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

The longer government allows teacher workload to remain unsustainably high, the greater the risks posed to young people’s education.

Expecting teachers to work for free is not acceptable. No teacher should be required to undertake additional responsibilities without appropriate TLRs. .

SATs are not a useful or accurate way of assessing what children can do.

Teachers and support staff are regularly paying to help disadvantaged pupils in their care.

Seven in eight respondents tell us the SEND resources they do have are insufficient.