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Just over half of teaching assistants in schools stepped-up to manage classes on their own during the winter lockdown ensuring vulnerable and key worker children could attend lessons, according to a new study by UCL Institute of Education (IOE) researchers. The study, published by the IOE and funded by UNISON, analysed data from 9,055 teaching and classroom assistants. It gives a broad picture of how TAs contributed to the running of UK schools, what this meant for them and makes key recommendations for the future. The researchers found that 88% of TAs supported vulnerable and key worke...

George Mkandawire March 18, 2021 at 6:35 am # Sounds to be a very good guide looking forward to reading it Matilda A Biney March 18, 2021 at 10:35 am # I am very happy people are recognising the role of a Social worker, I’m a social work student in Ghana. Alec Fraher March 18, 2021 at 3:03 pm # When you’ve been around awhile the Year of This and the Year of That start to add up and one can bear witness to impact of rallies like ‘stand up ...

Encourage unemployed to staff polling stations, says Cabinet Office The Cabinet Office has recommended that councils encourage unemployed people to step in to plug a staffing gap for May's local elections. The move comes as a trade union warns of the risk of polling stations becoming “hotspots for infection spread” if new staff are drafted in without adequate precautions. A letter from Ellen Atkinson, the department’s director for constitution, says it can help councils “tap into new sources of staff” by providing access to Job Centre customers, as well as civil servants from elsewh...

One headteachers’ union said ruling out an occupation-based rollout for the vaccination programme due to complexity was ‘not good enough’.

Employers branded a 'disgrace' over council pay delay Council employers have been branded a ‘disgrace’ after they said they would not respond to a union pay claim until after the May 6 elections. The three main local government unions today called on employers to speed up the pay offer process so council staff did not have to wait months for a wage rise. The letter read: ‘After years of falling real pay, staff urgently need a decent increase that begins to reward them fairly for the vital work they do. 'This delay is simply unfair.’ Unison’s head of local government, Jon Richards, s...