Search Campaigns, News and Blogs tagged schools

Invite us to your school to help with professional registration

We can help learning support staff in Wales prepare for registration – just ask us in

Article on the UNISON National site.

Essential cover for you at work

Trade unions are there to help: why are they being attacked?

Article on the UNISON National site.

Stars in our schools – what are your plans?

UNISON has organised the day to celebrate the wonderful work staff like you do every day

Article on the UNISON National site.

Asbestos – how safe is your school? Take the survey

More than 75% of school buildings in Britain contain asbestos. Are you at risk?

Article on the UNISON National site.

Cuts to tax credits – join the UNISON campaign

An average household in receipt of tax credits will lose a whopping £1,350 a year

Article on the UNISON National site.

Keep free school meals for infant children: sign the petition

UNISON is backing a petition calling on the government to keep universal free school meals for infant children in English schools

Article on the UNISON National site.

UNISON welcomes an end to speculation that free school meals face the axe

Free school meals are a ‘lifeline’ to many families

Article, Press release on the UNISON National site.

New range of materials available to promote Stars in our Schools campaign

Campaign highlights school support staff, the Stars in our Schools

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

New career framework for TAs – but professional standards still delayed by DfE

“Delay to government professional standards document has been a step back for a profession that has been largely neglected by the government since 2010”

News on the UNISON National site.

Welsh schools cannot survive without support staff

UNISON calling for support and training for those in vital school role

Article, News on the UNISON National site.

Stars in our schools

Join UNISON’s search for the unsung heroes of our schools

Article, Magazine on the UNISON National site.

UNISON in schools – what we do and how to get involved

UNISON National Schools Sector Committee Eastern region is looking for a UNISON member who works in a school to represent members on the National Schools’ Sector […]

Article, News on the UNISON Eastern site.

We need to tackle asbestos in schools

More than 75% of schools in the UK contain asbestos – but the government is still dragging its feet over a report on the scale of the problem due last spring

Article, General Secretary's blog on the UNISON National site.

Children in schools at risk of exposure to asbestos

Government committee concludes children are more vulnerable to exposure to asbestos than adults – the younger the child the greater the risk

Article on the UNISON National site.

‘Solidarity’s day has come’ says Dave Prentis

"And if they don't, we will," he told UNISON delegates, "because we are the folk to fight for it." To cheers from the conference hall, Mr Prentis also demanded that a future Labour government […]

Article on the UNISON National site.