National NEU Weekly Update
Week Ending 26/4/2024
“The news that the Government would continue with one word Ofsted judgements was met with dismay. We were quoted in the Mail, Telegraph, and covered by the Press Association, gaining good regional coverage. Our press release here.
The decision by WhatsApp to change the minimum age from 13 to 16 led to accusations of putting profit before safety. Reflections of the comments I made in my speech to annual conference on the need for social media giants to be made to have social responsibility to our children were included in reports: Mirror and Sky News.
The Voice newspaper ran an article on the rise in English schools recruiting Jamaican teachers. I commented that: “The aggressive recruitment of teachers from other countries can have a significant impact on their ability to deliver good quality education to the children there and that is why the Government needs to address the causes of not being able to recruit and retrain sufficient UK trained teachers.”
The Government’s ‘levelling up’ payments to teachers in certain STEM subjects was yet another sticking plaster solution to the recruitment and retention problem. See full press release.”
Daniel Kebede, NEU General Secretary
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