Press releases

Working lives of teachers and leaders

Date: 01/03/2024

Government must not shy away from the findings of its own Working Lives of Teachers and Leaders Survey

IFS on school funding

Date: 01/03/2024

Up until this point the Government have ignored a growing existential crisis in education that is happening on their watch.

Funding

Government evidence to STRB

Date: 29/02/2024

Strike action is a last resort but it will be an option our members will seriously consider in the face of such a belligerent approach from this Government.

Government attendance drive

Date: 29/02/2024

If Government is serious about addressing the reasons behind absences, they need to ensure schools and parents have the means to get the help required.

Labour on sexual harassment in schools

Date: 26/02/2024

Sexism in schools is symptomatic of gender inequality across our society.

Updated School Cuts data

Date: 24/02/2024

School Cuts website shows 70% of schools in England have faced real-terms cuts since 2010.

Funding

Work Your Proper Hours Day

Date: 23/02/2024

The NEU will continue to pressure the Government to reduce workload and achieve the reductions needed by our members.

Sutton Trust on National Tutoring Programme

Date: 22/02/2024

Our current school system works against disadvantaged students in almost every way.

Equality

Early Years Alliance survey

Date: 22/02/2024

It is truly staggering that a quarter of respondents expect their setting will close over the next 12 months.

Early years

Parents poll calls for free school meals

Date: 20/02/2024

Parents tells Rishi Sunak now is the time for Free School Meals for all pupils in primaries across England – not just London: new poll finds.

Child poverty

Mobiles phones guidance

Date: 19/02/2024

This guidance will make little difference and is a distraction from the many problems facing education.

Behaviour

EPI on Extra-Curricular Activities

Date: 14/02/2024

Daniel Kebede, General Secretary of the NEU on the Education Policy Institute reports examining participation in sports and other hobbies at secondary school.

Funding