
Disability workplace checklist
Download this poster for NEU disabled members
Download this poster for NEU disabled members
Frequently asked questions from NEU members
Using the social model to bargain for disability equality in schools and colleges
Reasonable adjustments are changes to the workplace that enable staff with a disability to work safely and productively.
A workplace checklist for reps to bargain for disability equality
A checklist for leaders on disability equality
Disability language do’s and don’ts
Experiencing workplace disability discrimination?
Using the Disability Equality Toolkit to support disabled members
Feminism in schools webinar, Thursday, 12 May 2022, 4:30pm via Zoom. Speaker: Charlotte Carson (founder of Feminism in Schools)
These new resources for the classroom help girls learn about female role models in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and support their aspirations and subject choices.
27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day. These resources are to support teachers and learners in finding out more about why this day is so important.
Women Chainmakers Strike of 1910 - teaching resources
Black History Month (BHM) is held each year in October, to promote the history and contribution that Black communities have made to the UK helping to understand the present through our past.
Windrush Day marks the day SS Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks in Essex in 1948.
Tackling antisemitism through education and resources for members.
An NEU toolkit to support members affected at work by domestic abuse. Model policy, guidance, poster, FAQs and a checklist for reps and leaders. #NEURNotAlone
Working against racism in education
The NEU's framework for developing an anti-racist approach
International Women's Day (IWD) celebrates women and calls for gender equity.
The NEU worked with five primary schools over two years to consider how ‘traditional’ gender stereotypes could be challenged in nursery and primary classrooms.
Relationships education and health education should begin in primary school and be developed and delivered according to children’s developmental age and lived experiences.
Councillors are a bridge between the community and the local authority. The local authority can take a lead in developing a borough/region-wide approach to LGBT+ inclusion in education.
Changes to Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) are vital to support the social and emotional development of children and young people.
Awarded in recognition of work to challenge sexism and engage women in the union.
Here you will find resources which have been developed and shared by teachers to help schools support refugees.
Narrative on National Education Union employee gender and pay. We are absolutely committed to continuing to reduce our gender pay gap.
A comprehensive set of teaching resources on the Holocaust and Nazi persecution, produced by the NEU and the Holocaust Educational Trust.
LGBT+ education professionals, pupils and families are vital members of all nursery, school and college communities and of our union.
Advice on working through the menopause, guides and checklists for leaders and school reps and the NEU's model menopause policy.
A key priority of the union is to make sure all members have a voice in the union, the workplace and broader society; and do not face barriers to promotion, representation or participation.
Rebuilding a school system that supports all students, staff and teachers and is responsive to the particular needs of each and every child.
Using equality data in tackling pay progression
FAQs on pay scale, allowances for additional responsibilities and pay progression to help understand how teacher pay works.
Supporting victims and challenging the behaviour of perpetrators
A guide for leaders on how to tackle domestic violence and the workplace
A guide for members on how to tackle domestic abuse and the workplace
A guide for NEU reps on how to tackle domestic abuse and the workplace
A guide for reps on equality in schools, including a checklist to ensure that all eligible members receive pay progression.
Every school and district should be having a conversation about LGBT+ inclusion.
It is often the most unpleasant voices that we hear the loudest and whether you are out at work or not, it can be extremely isolating being a lone LGBT+ staff member.
LGBT+ inclusion involves reviewing the curriculum and lesson plans across all subjects to eliminate heteronormative bias, and ensure sexual orientations and gender identities are represented.
The most common queries NEU members have on equality in schools.
An NEU equality model statement to be used to promote equal opportunity for all staff in a school/trust.
Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) will be changing for schools in England from September 2020.
The purpose of this guidance is to suggest practical ways in which the school and college environment can be improved for women who are going through the menopause.
Education has a key role to play in countering the international, national and local climate of Islamophobia.
Who is protected from discrimination on grounds of religion or belief and the first steps you should take if you think you have been discriminated against at work.
Who is protected from harassment on grounds of age and the first steps you should take if you think you are being subjected to such harassment.
Who is protected from age discrimination and the first steps you should take if you think you have been discriminated against at work.
Who is protected from harassment on grounds of sexual orientation, and the first steps you should take if you think you have been harassed at work.
Who is protected from sexual orientation discrimination, and the first steps you should take if you think you have been discriminated against at work.
Who is protected from harassment on grounds of transgender status,and the first steps you should take if you think you have been harassed at work.
Who is protected from transgender discrimination, and the first steps you should take if you think you have been discriminated against at work.
Who is protected from sexual harassment and the first steps you should take if you think you are being subjected to such harassment.
Trade union victimisation, who is protected from it and the first steps you should take if you think you have been victimised at work.
The legal definition of harassment on grounds of disability, who is protected and the first steps you should take if you think you are being subjected to such harassment.
The legal definition of disability discrimination, who is protected and the first steps you should take if you think you have been discriminated against at work.
The legal definitions of sex discrimination, who is protected and the first steps you should take if you think you have been discriminated against at work.
The legal definitions of pregnancy and maternity discrimination, who is protected and the first steps you should take if you think you have been discriminated against at work.
The legal definition of racial harassment, who is protected and the first steps you should take if you think you are being subjected to racial harassment.
The legal definitions of race discrimination, who is protected, and the first steps you should take if you think you have been discriminated against at work.
The government has published its response to the July 2020 public consultation - Public service pension schemes: changes to the transition arrangements to the 2015 schemes consultation. The NEU is pleased that the government has adopted our position and favours ‘Deferred Choice’.
The campaign for equal pay has a long history; one which is still ongoing.
This advice aims to help school and college staff support gender variant or questioning students in the educational environment.
10 tips to tackle disablist bullying in the workplace - a guide for staff
The NEU is concerned about how poverty disproportionately affects women.
This toolkit is aimed at school representatives, teacher governors and NEU officers to use to promote good policies and practices in schools and colleges.
The results of UK Feminista and NEU’s groundbreaking study are clear: schools, education bodies and Government must take urgent action to tackle sexism in schools. "It's just everywhere" is a study on sexism in schools and how we tackle it.
The Equality Act 2010 requires employers to make reasonable adjustments to premises or working practices to ensure that employees are not disadvantaged because of their disability.
The NEU Trans Equality Toolkit provides information for education staff on transitioning in school/college.
The Sewell report has little of value to say about education and has no recommendations on tackling racism in schools.
22 June 1948 ‘Citizens of the British empire’. Britain’s schizophrenic approach to migrants continues to this day. Rodeane Henry-Grant on Windrush.
The theme of Refugee week 2022 is ‘Healing’. The theme is so pertinent this year when so many children and families have fled crises in Afghanistan, Ukraine and Palestine.
International Women’s Day on the 8 March is a chance to celebrate women’s achievements around the world as well as shine a spotlight on the continuing inequalities and injustices that women and girls face.
On Martin Luther King Day, the NEU wants to make the links between poverty and racism better understood.
Today August 2, marks the 75th anniversary of the murder of 2,897 Sinti and Roma in the gas chambers at the German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
Discrimination against trans pupils is illegal under the 2010 Equality Act.
The NEU shares the concerns from this report about the disproportionate exclusions of Black, SEND and poor students.
Comment on the launch of the National Education Union’s Anti-Racist Charter framework at Annual Conference in Bournemouth
Comment on the passing of Motion 30 at the Annual Conference of the National Education Union
Comment on the passing of Motion 29 at the Annual Conference of the National Education Union
Comment on the passing of Motion 17 at the Annual Conference of the National Education Union
Comment on the passing of an urgent motion on Children’s Rights and Police in Schools at the Annual Conference of the National Education Union
Disturbing report showing anti-Jewish hate incidents involving schools, school students and teachers in 2021.
NEU survey shows importance of an inclusive and representative curriculum for LGBT+ equality
The government response to sidesteps the questions of both racism and poverty.
This is an important report. It reminds us about the power of education to build societies.
The NEU is committed to working with The Hamilton Commission to support and empower young Black people through education, and to widen opportunities.
Today is an important day which draws attention to the violence and discrimination experienced by LGBT+ people around the world and here at home.
Sexism has real negative consequences for girls and for female staff, who disproportionately experience sexual violence and harassment. If we want different outcomes for girls, we need to start doing things differently.
It is urgent that all Black students can access a positive, engaging and representative curriculum.
We can't work towards equality in society or tackle discrimination in workplaces unless we talk positively about LGBT+ people across the curriculum.
We've got to assert that homophobic and transphobic discrimination doesn't go unnoticed or unchallenged.
Sexism and sexist biases including pregnancy and maternity discrimination mean that women in the education sector are losing out in status and pay.
Throughout 2020 and 2021, racism and the value of Black lives has been the subject of persistent and painful news stories, and the Covid pandemic has laid bare the extent of racial inequalities in all areas of social policy.
There remains a job of work to do within the education sector about making sure employers make reasonable adjustments to retain and value their staff who are disabled.
Many schools themselves are already showing the lead on this and decolonising their curriculum, but today’s report misses the point that schools are doing this in the absence of support and despite the Government.
NEU to speak at Petitions Committee hearing on Black history and the curriculum
The National Education Union is deeply concerned by the recent comments made by the Women and Equalities Minister Liz Truss which have caused unnecessary distress and anxiety for trans and non-binary workers.
NEU Cymru have written to the Minister for Education, Welsh Government to express deep concerns about the injustices and racial disparities that have been highlighted by the virus and by the horrific events of brutality against black people in the United States.
NEU has today written to the Prime Minister with 5 recommendations for urgent action to tackle racism.
The National Education is proud to host an exclusive Black Lives Matter solidarity webinar, with guests including the Reverend Jesse Jackson Snr, and Diane Abbott MP, on Monday 15 June at 3pm.
Urgent action is needed to address widespread stereotyping, discrimination and the fear and violence caused by racism.
The NEU calls on the Government and Public Health England to develop urgent advice on the issues of greater health risk identified in the Fenton Review.
National Education Union, has written to the Prime Minister about the hiring of Andrew Sabisky
While schools do a great deal to provide all students with a broad and balanced curriculum, as this report shows, gender continues to shape the subjects chosen by pupils at GCSE.
We support Plan International’s call for a remodelling of education, one that puts gender equality and social and emotional learning at it’s heart.
Ahead of World Teachers’ Day (5 October), the National Education Union (NEU) will be screening the new documentary from British filmmaker and former teacher Jon Seal.
New research from the National Education Union and UK Feminista – “It’s just everywhere”: Sexism in schools and how we tackle it - shows that the sexual harassment of girls in schools is widespread.
Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, comments on today’s written statement on Keeping Children Safe in Education.
75 million children, of whom 41 million are girls, do not go to primary school.
Building LGBT+ inclusion through reading. Part of the Union’s Breaking the Mould series of resources, for nursery and primary phase teachers to think about books to use in the classroom.
Despite Government promises, for teachers, the gender pay gap persists.
Join us at the organising to end sexism and sexual harassment in schools conference on Saturday 24 September, 9:30am - 4:30pm at Jurys Inn, Hinckley, Leicestershire.
The next Black educators' conference will take place at the Jury’s Inn, Hinckley Island from Friday 4 November - Sunday 6 November.