Eleanor Harding

6 days ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Eleanor Harding

Parents who ‘abdicate responsibility’ for their child’s behaviour should face sanctions from schools, a teaching union has heard. Members of the NASUWT have told its annual conference heads should crack down on those allowing their offspring to abuse teachers. One even suggested permissive parents should face losing their child’s school place. The union passed a motion saying the ‘the changing relationship’ between parents and schools is ‘having a detrimental impact on pupil behaviour’.

1 week ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Eleanor Harding

Britain's biggest education union has threatened strikes to ‘make Labour MPs pay’ unless teachers get more cash this year. The National Education Union (NEU) said it is poised to mobilise its half a million members to cause political damage to the Government. General Secretary Daniel Kebede accused ministers of ‘betraying’ teachers with a 2.8 per cent pay recommendation, as well as those who voted Labour.

1 week ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Eleanor Harding

Have you missed out this year? Email [email protected] than one in four children have missed out on their first choice primary school place in some areas – but many Northern parents are winning, data suggests. Early survey results on National Offer Day reveals parents in London had a worse chance of getting their top school than those in other parts of the country.

1 week ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Eleanor Harding

Britain's largest teaching union has sparked fears for Jewish pupils after vowing to produce school resources to ‘raise awareness’ of the situation in Palestine. The National Education Union (NEU) voted to develop materials for its half a million members to use in classrooms about the ongoing conflict in Gaza. However, one of its own members accused the union of presenting a ‘one-sided’ and ‘anti-Israel’ view, saying the plans could fuel anti-Semitism in schools.

3 weeks ago | thisismoney.co.uk | Eleanor Harding

Labour have admitted they rejected calls to exempt children with special needs from private school VAT partly because it was ‘revenue diminishing’, judges have been told. In an extraordinary disclosure in the High Court, the Government said sparing these children from the tax would be ‘incompatible’ with ‘the principles underpinning the policy’. These included ‘raising additional tax revenues’, according to documents submitted to the court by lawyers representing Chancellor Rachel Reeves.