Queen’s speech
Our schools and colleges cannot offer the world class education our children and young people deserve without proper levels of funding. Additional money has been given but it falls way short of what is actually needed.
Child Poverty
The UK is one of the world’s richest economies yet in 2016/2017, 4.1 million children were living in poverty in the UK, an increase of 100,000 on the previous year.
Press release
Shelter report reveals 135,000 children without a home
This survey is an indictment of the child homelessness which austerity is causing. It’s a national disgrace that 1.5 million children are forecast to fall into poverty between 2010 and 2020/21.
NEU parents poll
New parent poll shows education rising to third biggest issue in General Election.
Labour Party Manifesto
The NEU asked each party to value education and make pledges on funding and the Labour party has met our tests. Labour’s manifesto demonstrates an understanding that schools alone cannot counter the drastic and long-lasting impacts of poverty and class inequality in wider society.
NEU members poll on child poverty
In a snapshot poll of National Education Union members, the growth of child poverty and its visibility within schools and colleges is laid bare.
Labour pledges on poverty
Teachers and support staff work on the front line of child poverty and witness its devastating effects every day. Labour’s proposed policies on reserving the effects of austerity offers hope to millions of children and their families currently trapped in poverty’s grip.
Weapons in Schools
Schools form just one part of a multi-agency approach to reducing youth crime and the exposure of young people to violence, and those agencies all need support.
EPI on the education disadvantage gap
We shouldn't be surprised by these findings, but they should urgently trigger a change in approach. Cutting school funding dramatically while at the same time driving more families deeper into poverty comes at a high cost for poor and working-class students, says NEU.
UK off-track to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in education and social justice
Today, the National Education Union releases Progress off-track, a new snapshot briefing indicating how England and the UK are performing with the Sustainable Development Goals in relation to education and social justice.
Elitist Britain – Sutton Trust/Social Mobility Commission report
Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary, NEU comments on Elitist Britain 2019, a report from the Sutton Trust and Social Mobility Commission which looks at the educational background of over 5,000 of Britain’s leading and “influential” people.
UN Special Rapporteur on Poverty in the UK
Commenting on the final report by Philip Alston, which identifies the “tragic consequences” of “ideological” cuts to public services since 2010, Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said: “This report is further evidence that the government must reverse benefit freezes that have left millions of children in poverty."
The State of Education: Child Poverty
Increased concern about worsening levels of child poverty and its impact on learning, according to survey of NEU members.
Child poverty harms children’s educational opportunities
Growing child poverty is affecting children’s learning, say NEU education professionals, and schools and education staff are increasingly providing the services and essentials of daily life to stop families falling through the cracks
NEU comment on IFS report on the rich and poor in education
Andrew Morris, Assistant General Secretary of the National Education Union, has commented on research by the IFS which reflects on the historical skew towards the rich in public spending on education.
NEU survey: Teachers witnessing distressing new levels of child poverty this winter in schools
A National Education Union snapshot poll of 1,026 teachers* in England paints a harrowing picture of the increase in poverty seen in our schools and the daily impact it is having on children and young people.
School Holiday Poverty
Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, has commented on the Government’s school holiday programme for disadvantaged children.
Article
Wales needs to end child poverty
Around one fifth of children in Wales lives in poverty, the highest percentage of children in the UK.
Policy
Child poverty - the facts
Poverty has a severe impact on the education of children growing up in the UK.