NFER workforce reports, external<\/a> suggest while progress is being made in recruiting and keeping teachers, a growing proportion of teaching assistants are leaving their jobs in schools. <\/p>\nIt estimates that around one in five support staff left the school system between 2023\/24 and 2024\/25.<\/p>\n
Teaching assistants in particular play an important role in providing more individual support in classrooms for children with special educational needs.<\/p>\n
In response to the NEU, the DfE said it was backing schools with its \u00a34bn investment, and that it was “fiercely ambitious for every single child”.<\/p>\n
It is currently consulting on the proposals, and said it wants parents and schools to share their views.<\/p>\n
The impact of the proposed reforms will be one of the main subjects of debate as union members gather for their annual conference. <\/p>\n
There is a political edge too, with the leader of the Green Party, Zack Polanski, due to speak to teachers and support staff at the NEU conference on Monday. <\/p>\n
Kebede said Polanski was now “the most favoured politician amongst our members”, and described that as a “wake up call” for the Labour government. <\/p>\n
The union is consulting its members over potential industrial action over pay, to gauge the appetite before committing to a formal ballot. <\/p>\n
In the meantime, on ministers’ desks is the report from the independent body which reviews teachers’ pay, which will help shape the pay offer for the next year or two. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recent research by an independent charity points to the potential pressures on schools in England as they prepare…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-501405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}