Louise Birch

Free Palestine

London wildlife on my way to work

The School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) has made its recommendation and the report is sitting on Bridget Phillipson’s desk. We ask the Education Secretary to publish the report now and fund fair pay for teachers and our schools. #NEU2025 #FundFairPay

Standing with our trans brothers and sisters

Absolutely awesome night last night. Ocean Colour Scene, Kula Shaker and my favourite man!

Free School Meals for All: Sign the open letter Tell the Government it’s time to extend Free School Meals to every child in primary. Add your name to open letter, alongside civil society and MPs, calling on the new Prime Minister to do right by chi...

9 children in an average class of 30 are growing up in poverty. That cannot be right in the world's sixth richest country. The government must invest in the next generation – it can make an immediate start by making #FreeSchoolMealsForAll a reality: freeschoolmealsforall.org.uk/take-action

Teachers are struggling with the rising cost-of-living, and an unfunded 2.8% pay rise just won’t cut it!

And it will only make the recruitment and retention crisis in our schools get worse!

🗳️The time to act is now. Have your say in the preliminary ballot on pay and funding: NEUActivate.com.

Well I’m finishing the final day of meteorological winter with a sunny walk by the river. It’s been rather a lush day.

I highly recommend both these books

Awesome weekend spent with the most fabulous educators at our LGBT + conference. We are the NEU! 🏳️‍🌈

Sixth form consultation results | National Education Union Members in non-academised sixth form colleges have voted overwhelmingly to end their dispute with the Secretary of State for Education.

Through their collective action, our sixth-form teaching members have secured funding for an above-inflation pay award, guaranteeing the integrity of their collective bargaining. A hard-earned win, well done! neu.org.uk/press-releas...

Arts and Minds | National Education Union Arts and Minds is a coalition of organisations calling for the restoration of all arts and creative subjects as a crucial part of the curriculum.

🚨 Today we launched #TheArtsAndMindsCampaign

We’re calling for all children and young people to have the right to study creative subjects and for schools to be properly funded to deliver them. #ArtsAndMinds

Join the campaign. 👇
neu.org.uk/assessment/c...

It’s #heartunions week.❤️

Why not ask someone who isn’t a union member to join the NEU?

Membership benefits include:
✅ Workplace representation
✅ Support and advice
✅ Access to training and professional development

Joining is easy – just go here.👉 buff.ly/417glIS

Being a union member literally changed my life, I can’t recommend it enough! Join up, join in!

A very interesting Hope not Hate briefing tonight. We have work to do to tackle Farage but I have hope that we can offer a real alternative.

Big love to all NEU members who marched today against racism.
We cannot allow the far right to spread fear and hate in our communities.
Doing your pupils proud.
#StandUpToRacism

📢 The far right will try to divide us, but we’re stronger together. 📢

Join the counterprotest on at 11:30am today to send a loud and clear message: We will NOT let racism, hate, and Islamophobia thrive in our streets.

📍 St James's Street, off Piccadilly.

#StandUpToRacism

Tomorrow we march in our thousands against Tommy Robinson and the far right. Important info for the march assembling 11.30am St James's Street London👇🏽

#StandUpToRacism

More children will come to school hungry, warns poverty report The impact of the cost-of-living crisis on pupils’ ability to learn is highlighted in a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

“We can’t expect children to be ready for school or able to learn if they’re going without the basics."

Poverty harms children's learning. That's why we need government to commit to universal free school meals and support all pupils to learn. www.tes.com/magazine/new...

It’s a bit rich for the Conservatives to talk about teachers’ pay. They had 14 years in power and, over that time, teachers in England saw their pay decline by a fifth. Kemi Badenoch should apologise for the recruitment and retention crisis her party created.

The government must invest in children's education, starting by pledging a fully funded, significantly above-inflation pay rise. Our evidence to the pay review body calls for urgent action on both pay and school funding. Read it here: https://buff.ly/3PZSXad

NEU announce indicative ballot on pay | National Education Union NEU announce plans to consult members on Government’s 2.8% pay recommendation

"The suggestion that an unfunded pay award can be paid for by making ‘efficiencies’ is an insult to a profession who have already endured 14 years of austerity."

Your executive has met and made a decision. Our indicative ballot will open on 1 March.

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