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Voice NewsAdvice to members in the event of boycott of Key Stage 2 tests by other unions.
Statements, articles, links. Let Voice know your concerns.
Letter by General Secretary to TES on social partnership.
Single Status/Job evaluation, Renewing membership, GTC Code, strikes, WAMG news...
Briefing by General Secretary Philip Parkin
Voice has dismissed plans to promise parents a vote on whether struggling schools should be run by a different organisation.
Voice has welcomed the audit undertaken by ATaC.
A report found that one in four parents won’t discipline their children for fear of upsetting them.
Voice has backed proposals for parents to sign up to school behaviour policies when they apply for a school place.
Survey of Voice members in England
Voice’s Manifesto of key points it would like to see addressed in the General Election.
The new primary curriculum will become statutory in England from September 2011.
Proposals for teachers to have 2:2 or higher and from "good university".
Letter by General Secretary to TES on Children, Schools and Families Committee report
Response to DCSF figures and media reports
Comment on the Children, Schools and Families Committee’s report on School Accountability
Rise in number of career-changers applying to train as teachers during 2009/10, according to TDA.
"Click Clever Click Safe" launched
Requirement for registration with General Teaching Council for England: September 2009. Plus UK border requirements
Article by General Secretary
Union address article by Philip Parkin in SecEd, 26 November 2009
Letter by General Secretary to TES on ’Licence to Teach’.
Comment on Queen’s Speech 2009
National Chairman Rosemary Stokes on "The Big Questions", BBC, October 2009
Voice policy and statements on this issue
Voice has welcomed the final report of the Cambridge Primary Review.
Comment on School exclusions (England)
Comment on speech
The General Teaching Council for England’s Code of Conduct and Practice.
Voice has welcomed the measures to improve behaviour in schools and tackle bullying in the speech by Schools Secretary Ed Balls to the 2009 Labour Party Conference.
Comment on media interviews with Ed Balls about the Schools Secretary’s suggestions for cuts to education spending.
Voice has expressed scepticism about claims from the Health Protection Agency and renewed its call for a full scientific investigation into the long-term effects of wi-fi.
CCTV cameras being installed in some classrooms
Scales for teachers in England and Wales. STRB’s 18th Report Part 2 and responses.
Rosemary Stokes is the new National Chairman of Voice.
NUT and NAHT 2009 conferences resolutions calling for boycott of 2010 KS1&2 tests. Voice shares other unions’ concerns but will not be supporting a boycott.
Review of the primary curriculum by Sir Jim Rose for DCSF and Voice’s response.
Briefing to SecEd by General Secretary Philip Parkin and then National Chairman Andrew Broadhurst, plus futher briefings.
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