Hands Up: Enough is Enough Reps Briefing
Start: Tuesday, December 04, 2018•04:15 PM
End: Tuesday, December 04, 2018•06:30 PM
Host contact info huw.tindall-jones@neu.org.uk
Come and discuss the school funding crisis with colleagues and learn how you can support the National Education Union's indicative ballot.
Since 2015, real-terms funding per pupil has been cut by 8 per cent. This has had an enormous effect on our schools.
These damaging cuts have been further compounded by the Government refusing to fully fund the latest pay settlement from the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB), leaving our schools at breaking point.
The government had failed to restore any of the cuts made to education, failed to promise that future funding would keep pace with growing school costs and betrayed a fundamental lack of understanding of the budget situation in schools by offering a gone off payment of £400m for little extras.
The cuts have led to teachers being made compulsorily redundant, an increased workload where teachers and support staff have not been replaced and the government for the first time in its 27 year existence refusing to implement the STRB recommendation that all teachers should get 3.5%.
In some schools teachers are not even getting the increases the government has allowed and, in others, teachers are being unfairly denied pay progression. This survey of member opinion is in partnership with NAHT & ASCL and will only involve teaching members.
This is the final straw. Enough is Enough.