• School support staff are paying for pupils’ food, skipping meals and taking on multiple jobs to survive (1 Dec 2022)
  

• Latest COVID-19 advice for school and early years staff (2 Nov 2022)
  

• Council workers accept deal that will give lowest-paid 10.5% (2 Nov 2022)
  

• Education plans won’t work if support staff are ignored (24 May 2022)
  

• Plan to provide early years education on the cheap will hit children and staff (24 May 2022)
  

• UNISON slates government over school funding shortages (25 Apr 2022)
  

• Forced academisation threat for schools is stopped (2 Mar 2022)
  

• Children with special needs feeling the brunt of staffing shortages (10 Feb 2022)
  

• Academy orders issued to schools in Hallam Diocese ‘unlawfully’(9 Feb 2022)
  

• ​Schools risk support staff exodus over pay (1 Dec 2021) 
  

• School support staff finally included in wellbeing charter (1 Dec 2021) 
  

• New toolkit highlights positive impact of teaching assistants  (13 Oct 2021)
  

• Unions call for additional safety measures in schools  (13 Oct 2021)
  

• Council staff who kept services and schools running deserve a real pay rise (27 Jul 2021)
  

• Outwood Grange Academies Trust: Hasland Hall restructure - answers and future arrangements (23 July 2021)

UNISON has its own website dedicated to professional development for school support staff – Skills for Schools – and played a key role in developing professional standards for teaching assistants.

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