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🌷 Spring 2026 Update Blog Is Here!
• ✨ New SLG Chair
• 📚 Free Reading Webinars for school librarians
• 🛡️ Standing up for the freedom to read
• 🏆 Celebrating Pupil Library Assistants of the Year 2026
Don’t miss the full scoop ➡️ cilipslg.com/2026/03/29/s...
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“Historic paintings and sculptures of nudes” are apparently just too much for young people to handle in their art books. Just the latest in the story of what’s happening in some UK school libraries.
Brilliant work from the NEU on the fight against book censorship.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Brilliant piece from Black Current News on the school library purge in Salford, which we investigated @indexoncensorship.org
They talk to Nova Reid, whose book was on the list.
www.blackcurrentnews.co.uk/p/nova-reid-...
Now on the bbc. Thanks to the @neunion.bsky.social for taking this issue seriously and pledging to oppose censorship and the far right. Vital at all times, and limiting access to books feels especially cruel in the National Year of Reading @literacy-trust.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I've been following this story via @indexoncensorship.org and it's good to see @thebookseller.com covering it now. www.thebookseller.com/news/schools... #UKKidLit
In #Hungary, children’s books with LGBTQ+ themes are sealed in plastic. It’s not just writers being targeted, artists are censored too.
Index's @katiedd.bsky.social writes in our latest magazine issue.
Read it now⬇️
shop.exacteditions.com/index-on-cen...
I wrote Queerly Autistic as the book I desperately wish I'd had as a young queer autistic person.
I know what it was like trying to figure myself out without access to this sort of information, and how vulnerable that made me.
Knowledge is empowerment - and safety.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Image of a book on fire. Below, the text "book censorship news" is in white.
Where and How Book Censorship Is Impacting Children’s Publishing Right Now.
Publishing imprints for young readers are shuttering thanks to a softening school and library market. That's a result of book censorship, and it impacts you wherever you live.
bookriot.com/book-bans-an...
Very excited to have contributed to BERA's spotlight on #school #libraries and #education!
www.bera.ac.uk/blog-special...
🎉 We are thrilled to share that the School Library Association has been granted £500,000 by the Charlotte Aitken Trust to launch our new Reading Reboot programme. The programme will deliver social book clubs in 100 secondary schools across three years. Find out more: buff.ly/WX9CWJx
While today’s SEND reforms contain welcome aspiration, funding remains the elephant in the room.
Ambition must be matched by investment; schools simply cannot deliver more without more resources. #SaveEducation
Available for free in the UK on iPlayer
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
If anyone hasn't seen this yet, it's essential viewing.
#books #booksky 📚💙 #librarians #TheLibrarians
Read below Barbara Band's interview with Lucidea where she introduces her new book and how librarians can champion their libraries 👇
lucidea.com/blog/championing-your-sc...
Who is eligible to vote in the ballot?
Teachers, leaders and support staff employed in state-funded schools (primary and secondary) in England are included. For more, check out our FAQs here👉 bit.ly/4rEVcjQ
#SaveEducation
What is an online indicative ballot?
The indicative ballot will ask teacher and support staff members in state-funded schools in England whether they are prepared to take strike action to secure fully funded pay increases, stop workload increasing further and prevent redundancies.
"I'm on the picket line in Tower Hamlets, workers are demanding their employer negotiate on terms & conditions. That’s all we’re asking @bhamcitycouncil.bsky.social to do too."
– Ed Harlow, @neunion.bsky.social
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Schools are running on empty.
Staff are leaving in their droves without being replaced, and workloads are rising.
Day-to-day tasks are getting harder.
On 28 February, our indicative ballot on pay, funding, and workload launches.
Pledge to vote here 👉 NEUActivate.com
#SaveEducation
Here are the latest trends in comics censorship from 2025. As you might expect, more comics are being targeted and in particular, manga is feeling the heat. So, too, are adaptations, women's non fic, and more.
Big thanks to @anuncivilphd.bsky.social for her insights.
bookriot.com/trends-in-co...
New: Two-school academy trust bidding to cut teaching assistant pay by “up to £4,000 per year” – despite reserves of nearly £4 million
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/two-sch...
NEU members at Woodfield, a special school in Brent, north London, will reach ninth day of strike action this week.
Fun, creative & engaging activities & ideas for school librarians & teachers to use with students to encourage reading for pleasure - 50 Library Lessons & Ideas by Lucas Maxwell for Facet Publishing #ReadingForPleasure #NationalYearOfReading facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/...
Media & information literacy is vital for our democracy. Today we joined a group of other organisations & experts urging the Govt to back curriculum reform with proper ongoing funding for teachers & librarians mila.org.uk/mil-car-stat... #MediaLiteracy #InformationLiteracy
Cover of the November issue of Books for Keeps featuring artwork by Lauren Child from her new book I am Wishing Every Minute for Christmas, listing the contents including Authorgraph interview with Christopher Edge, Windows into Illustration with Petr Horacek, and our unmissable Christmas gift guides.
Out now! #BfK275, our seasonal special & it's a bumper issue: Books of the Year, unmissable gift guides incl #poetry & non-fiction. Authorgraph interview with Christopher Edge, Petr Horacek Windows into #Illustration, Nicolette Jones interviews Lauren Child 🎁🎁🎁
booksforkeeps.co.uk/issue/bfk-27...
New project report:
Teaching critical information literacy through popular culture: A media studies approach using the Oz texts.
Daniel Williford describes this approach which saw an increase in engagement and application of critical #InfoLit in practice.
OA: doi.org/10.11645/19....
#CritLib
Landmark victory for support staff at Cathedral Schools Trust (CST)! 💪
After 4 days of joint strike action with UNISON, NEU members at CST schools in Bristol and North Somerset reached a settlement with the employer following years of underpayment.
Through collective action, change happens.
The government is saying here it thinks every child should have access to the 'transformative power' of school library stock and space, but won't take a view on staff, leaving that to each school to decide www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=20...
Facet Publishing announce the publication of Championing Your School Library by @bcb567! A comprehensive guide to advocating for your school library, this is a must-read for anyone committed to sustaining and growing their library services. Order now 👇 https://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/9781783307562
Facet Publishing announce the publication of Championing Your School Library by Barbara Band! A comprehensive guide to advocating for your school library - a must-read for anyone committed to sustaining and growing their library services. Order now 👇 https://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/9781783307562
New Voices in Information Literacy (IL) Research
LIS graduates present their dissertation projects:
- IL education in UK public libraries
- How students identify and respond to AI hallucinations
- What makes physicians take charge? The role of IL
Free and online, 15 Dec 12:00-13:00 UTC
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