Cuts to schools are deeply unfair
The article More than 16,500 schools losing out under new cash allocations for April 2020 first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Union welcomes Commons select committee report revealing ‘the true scale of the funding cuts to schools and colleges’
The article MPs call for multi-billion pound education cash boost first appeared...
UNISON calls on government to ‘give more money to schools now’ as Education Policy Institute report shows more schools recording larger deficits
The article English schools having to spend more than...
New research by the School Cuts coalition of unions (NEU, NAHT, ASCL, UNISON, GMB and Unite) shows that class sizes are rising in the majority of secondary schools in England as a result of the...
The government needs to recognise the importance of the jobs council and school workers do
The article Give councils and schools the cash to fund a decent pay rise and protect services first...
Join us for a Lobby Against School Cuts to show MPs that, despite the Department of Education's welcome rethink, there is still a problem
The article Schools funding is still in crisis – prepare to...
School administrators, business managers and finance workers are regularly administering first aid, handing out medicines to pupils and conducting criminal record checks because of cuts in the number...
Only last month I wrote here about the problems facing school funding – and the need for the funding formula to resolve it in a way that’s fair to communities across the country. I said: “The...
Responding to government plans to reform school funding UNISON head of education Jon Richards said: “Schools that are already underfunded will get much less than they’d hoped for....
Since Theresa May became Prime Minister in July, the Conservative Party have spent a great deal of time and money on educational hobby horses like grammar schools - £200 million of funding for which...