Press releases

NEU Cymru welcomes increase in support payment to FE students. This increase is a step in the right direction for the Welsh Government.

The Prime Minister’s ambition will be thwarted, though, unless he faces up to the reality of the state of education in England.

NEU Northern Ireland announces strike on 26 April.

It is disappointing but also telling that the Department for Education has kept the results of this survey under wraps for so long.

The government must do more to strengthen the rights of pregnant women, bereaved parents, new mothers and women returning to work.

NEU will continue the robust and sustained national campaign to defend independent members in the face of a relentless attack on their pensions and contractual rights.

A strategy for agency workers will challenge unfair Government proposals – such as the threat to AWR - and campaign for tighter monitoring.

The NEU will continue to campaign for abortion rights so that women have a right to choose and have access to the reproductive healthcare that they need.

NEU condemns the Strike Bill, which would allow the Secretary of State to override a lawful democratic decision for strike action.

NEU will continue to campaign to alleviate the devastating effects often years of austerity on the lives of children and their families.

NEU will continue to welcome and integrate refugees, asylum seekers and migrants into their schools and communities and oppose the racism to which government policy appeals.

A quarter of respondents say they have no access to CAMHS for their students and 80% say that excessive workload is a barrier to getting the right help for their pupils.