Coronavirus: what you need to know - pregnancy and maternity
Information and guidance on your rights if you are pregnant or on maternity leave
Coronavirus - members
Further advice will be made available here as matters become clearer, along with advice on what school staff can and should do and cannot and should not do whether working in school or at home.
Coronavirus: making a difference
How the NEU is helping you win in your workplace
Coronavirus FAQs for leadership members
FAQs for school and college leaders
Coronavirus - What we say for Easter
What we say for Easter: Thursday 9 April
NITC and NEU call for the planned closure of schools in Northern Ireland
Schools should close now in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the NEU statement.
Coronavirus
The spread of COVID-19 poses serious challenges to schools, colleges, childcare and social care providers.
Advice
Coronavirus: pregnancy and maternity FAQs
Coronavirus FAQs for all members who are pregnant or on maternity leave
HMRC guidance on the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
The key 15 points of clarification arising from HMRC’s amended Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme guidance.
Coronavirus - post 16
NEU advice and FAQs for members in post-16 colleges regarding Coronavirus Covid-19.
Coronavirus: ensuring safety in hubs
Leaders of schools that are being asked to join larger hubs should carefully evaluate the risks.
Coronavirus: supply educators
We know that supply teachers are particularly concerned about what will happen if they are unable to work or if schools and colleges are closed.
Coronavirus: what you need to know - hubs
NEU guidance on the creation of school hubs to bring students from different schools together.
Coronavirus : safe home-based working
During the coronavirus pandemic, many NEU members will be working from home, either on days they are not on the rota to be in school, or because they fall into the categories of those who should not be in school because they are vulnerable.
Coronavirus FAQs for special school leaders
Frequently asked questions for special school leaders.
Coronavirus FAQs for special school reps
Frequently asked questions for special school reps.
Coronavirus risk evaluation and assessment
For leaders in education, the first and most important consideration during this crisis is the safety and wellbeing of the staff and students of your school or college.
Coronavirus and sick pay schemes
Relevant extracts from the Burgundy Book and Green Book sick pay schemes
Coronavirus - keeping yourself safe
Our major priority, during this awful crisis, is the health and safety of our members who are continuing to go to work to care for vulnerable pupils and the children of key workers.
Coronavirus - leaders
Advice for school leaders on coronavirus - with many schools and colleges remaining open for some students, we are keen to help you ensure clarity and safety in the workplace, while supporting all of you to help continue support for all staff and students.
Coronavirus - officers
NEU advice to branch and district officers regarding Coronavirus Covid-19
Coronavirus - reps
Guide for National Education Union workplace representatives and how to support your members during coronavirus outbreak.
Tuberculosis in Schools
This briefing gives information about tuberculosis (TB) and steps to be taken when cases arise in schools among students or teachers.
Meningitis in schools
Information about meningitis and what should be done when an outbreak occur in a school.
Legionnaires’ Disease in schools
The symptoms, treatments and preventative measures that should be taken in schools to avoid outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease.
Infectious diseases in schools
General advice about how to manage cases of infectious illness in schools, including when children should be absent.
Hygiene control in schools
Advice on the appropriate hygiene procedures for schools which will help to prevent the spread of blood-borne viruses such as HIV and hepatitis A, B and C, and conditions such as dysentery.
Hepatitis in schools
Advice on what precautions to take when a case of viral hepatitis arises in a school or where a known carrier of the disease is a pupil in the school.
Blog
Schools are providing a vital service during this time
Kirsty Williams, Education Minister Wales thanks the school community for helping the country in a time of national need.
Press release
Ofqual: Vocational and Technical Qualifications
One form of assessment will not fit all, and more detail is required.
Guidance on social distancing at work
NEU Cymru welcomes the Welsh Government plans to ensure social distancing in the workplace. These are challenging times, and it is right that we try and keep those in work as safe as possible.
School closure policies
The UCL review indicates that school closures are effective as part of a combination of tactics. Schools can only open safely on the basis of sound scientific reasoning. We are a long way from this point.
NEU launches microsite for parents and carers
The coronavirus microsite provides advice and recommends resources to parents to support home learning.
Free School Meals available over the Easter Holidays
We are pleased to see that Government has listened to the NEU and others who have asked for FSM to be available throughout the holidays.
Home schooling and the educational divide
The Social Mobility Foundation highlights inequalities in families' home learning environments.
Summer 2020 grades for GCSE, AS and A level
We are pleased that the Department for Education and Ofqual both recognise the professionalism of teachers. Exams are not the only way to assess someone’s ability.
Joint covid-19 advice Wales
Today four education unions, NEU, ASCL, NAHT and UCAC have issued joint coronavirus advice to their members calling for mutual respect, understanding and support.
Coronavirus crisis - joint union advice on COVID-19
The Covid-19 crisis means that school leaders, teachers and support staff are working in new situations and new ways in order to meet the challenges they face every day.
Action for supply teachers
Supply teachers, agency teaching assistants and others working in the education sector must have proper financial stability, on a genuine like-for-like with their directly-employed counterparts.
NEU Cymru comments on schools staying open
We’re glad that the Welsh Government plan to work with us as a union. We’ve been putting forward our members’ concerns and will continue to do so.
Coronavirus: Keeping staff and young people safe in schools and colleges
We know many of our members will be worried, so need strong and clear advice to schools, to back up the head teachers, who are having to choose which young people can be in schools.
Safety in schools during coronavirus outbreak
Our priority as a union is to our members and the children and young people they work with. We are concerned that Government advice for schools is not currently strong enough.
Coronavirus: School attendance
Schools should only remain open to those whose parents are key workers. The vast majority of children should stay at home. This is the safest place for them.
NEU Cymru welcomes sensible approach on exams
We expect the Welsh Government and Qualifications Wales to work with the profession, to fine-tune the detail of this approach.
Testing of education staff
The National Education Union has called for testing of education staff to be made an urgent priority in efforts to tackle coronavirus.
Exams
We welcome this announcement from Government. Evidence shows teacher-assessed grades are reliable and valid.
Parents asked to follow Government advice
It is vitally important that parents follow Government advice and keep their children at home where possible.
Key workers
This is a very long list and could result in some schools having the majority of pupils attending. This will not achieve the goal of slowing the spread of the virus.
NEU Cymru says time to be sensible over exams
NEU Cymru statement on school closures in Wales.
Closure of Schools
We welcome the Government’s announcement that, for public health reasons, schools will now close.
NEU Cymru welcomes school closures in Wales
We welcome the Education Minister’s announcement to close schools from Friday. We are pleased that Wales is the first UK nation to take this practical and pragmatic approach.
NEU Cymru asks for closure of schools and colleges
NEU has written to the Prime Minister asking that he close all schools and colleges, and we are hoping that the this will be the same for Wales.
Coronavirus school closure update
NEU calling for school closures "at least for some time and at least in some areas"
Coronavirus - school closure policy
Why aren’t schools closing if mass gatherings are to be suspended?
OFSTED should cease inspections
As COVID-19 spreads, schools need to focus on what is important.
Coronavirus
Schools have an important role to play, but we are concerned about suggestions in recent days that larger class sizes will be recommended for indefinite periods.