Behaviour disrupts lessons across all school types, but is highest in special schools and PRUs, where 69% of teachers report negative impacts on lessons regularly or all the time. #NEU2025
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It’s time to make your voice heard!
Executive elections are LIVE — don’t forget to cast your vote for your district and equalities stand.
Head to your post box now and get those ballots in! Every vote counts.
#NEU2025 #YourVoiceYourVote #EqualityMatters #NEUElections #UnionStrong
@neunion.bsky.social #NEU2025 Conference votes overwhelmingly to #StandWithUkraine ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2025/04/18/b...
The NEU opposes the exploitation of support staff, including cover supervisors, in being made to do the work of a teacher. 73% told us they are forced to engage in specified work – beyond their contract – and 75% consider it to be effectively the work of a supply teacher. #NEU2025
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75.5% of our support staff members said their workload had increased in the past year. In the same period, 57% reported that support staff numbers at their school had reduced, according to a recent survey. #NEU2025
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MAT leaders' salaries in the hundreds of thousands of pounds are a ‘scandal’, says @neunion.bsky.social general secretary Daniel Kebede, calling for the introduction of salary caps #NEU2025
Almost two thirds (63 per cent) of school support staff and over half of the teachers responding to our survey told us they personally provide and pay for extra food for pupils. Around two thirds of school leaders (68 per cent) said the same. #NEU2025 🔗 bit.ly/3EpI8fe
It's a wrap from #NEU2025 in Harrogate.
Safe journey everyone.
See you in Brighton next year for #NEU2026!
📷 Kois Miah
The demands of support staff on their time beyond contracted hours, and the impact of staff losses at their school or setting. 74% told us in a recent survey that their workload demands it. 30% put it down to a reduction in staffing at their place of work. #NEU2025
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In a recent survey of over 3,000 NEU support staff members working in state schools and academies in England and Wales, 72% of support staff members told us that they work in excess of their contracted hours. Just 1 in 7 are paid for those extra hours. #NEU2025
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Most teachers are seeing pupils showing signs of hunger and fatigue linked to poverty, @neunion.bsky.social research warns #NEU2025
Cheers then Harrogate and #NEU2025. Now off to Liverpool for @nasuwt-official.bsky.social conference!
“We are a union, with a high moral purpose, united in our shared desire to improve education for every child, in every classroom.
“We are a union that stands up for what is right, when it’s right.”
#NEU2025 🧵17 / 17
“We are in a safeguarding crisis. And it is being fuelled by tech companies that prioritise profits over people, engagement over ethics, and algorithms over accountability.”
#NEU2025 🧵16 / 17
“The NEU has always been, and must always be, a union built on solidarity.
Our strength lies in our ability to bring together – teachers, leaders, support staff, and educators from all backgrounds.”
#NEU2025 🧵15 / 17
“We will not allow the populist or hard-right to dictate what we teach, how we teach, or who gets access to a quality education.”
#NEU2025 🧵14 / 17
“We stand with our sisters and brothers as they resist Trump’s reactionary agenda. Their fight is our fight. An injury to one is an injury to all.”
#NEU2025 🧵13 / 17
“If there is money for bombs, for bullets, for hypersonic missiles then there should be money for carers, for those unable to work and for free school meals.”
#NEU2025 🧵12 / 17
“No teacher wants to strike. But we stand ready. The problems of tomorrow can be solved today.
“The refusal to commit to fund fair pay and the wider funding of education is not just a policy failing – it is a betrayal.”
#NEU2025 🧵11 / 17
“So, my message is this. If the STRB is not above inflation – if it does not address the crisis in recruitment and retention – and unless it is fully funded, then we stand ready to act industrially.”
#NEU2025 🧵10 / 17
“Government say it would be indefensible for the NEU to take industrial action. Well, I say to this government, it is indefensible for a Labour Government, a Labour Government, to cut school funding. Because cuts hurt kids.”
#NEU2025 🧵9 / 17
“Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves may say austerity is over, but in this union, we say austerity will only be ended by deeds not words.”
#NEU2025 🧵8 / 17
“This year we’ve seen the launch of our Arts and Minds campaign. The arts must be available in every school for every single child to learn and to enjoy.”
#NEU2025 🧵7 / 17
“Conference, we know – as professionals – that accountability measures and league tables are not the way to improve the life chances of our kids. Ofsted is only effective at measuring poverty.”
#NEU2025 🧵6 / 17
“While schools struggle to afford basic resources, whilst support staff are being paid poverty wages, and whilst teachers are leaving the profession in droves, some academy CEOs are cashing in. This is not just an injustice; it is a scandal.”
#NEU2025 🧵5 / 17
“I cannot tell you how proud I am of the reps and members across the Harris Federation who this year organised against hostile management to build a successful strike ballot.”
#NEU2025 🧵4 / 17
“The vision I have for this union, is a union of a million members. If you are in the school and not in a union – you should be in the NEU.”
#NEU2025 🧵3 / 17
“We are LIGHTING FIRES of resistance – in multi-academy trusts, with employer-wide disputes covering both teaching and support staff.
“Through all your steadfast action, you have proved what we already know: That when we fight, we win."
#NEU2025 🧵2 / 17
NEU general secretary @DanielKebedeNEU has been addressing delegates in Harrogate at #NEU2025.
“I am proud to lead the largest education union in Europe and the third largest union in the TUC."
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⚠️ The leader of the @neunion.bsky.social has vowed to make Labour MPs 'pay a high political price through our campaigning in their constituencies' if teachers are denied an increased, fully-funded pay rise
#NEU2025
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