A protest of the cuts in support staff at Colvestone Primary School on November 30 last year. - Credit: Colvestone parents Teaching support and schoolbus staff in Hackney have co-ordinated a set of strikes over three days in two separate disputes. Now, 32 drivers and passenger assistants who take disabled children to and from the Hackney schools have also voted to strike because Hackney Council will not pay them a one-off lump sum of £500 to recognise their work during the pandemic and over "other health and safety issues". Both strikes will take place from February 10 to 12. Unite regional officer Onay Kasab said: “The failures of both sets of employers to engage in constructive talks with Unite has left our members with no option but to reluctantly take strike action over three days in February – hopefully, the dovetailing of these two disputes will concentrate minds."