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News from WAMG (Workforce Agreement Monitoring Group)
General Secretary interviewed on BBC Breakfast about teaching assistants and cover.
Advice for Voice members on strikes or industrial action: www.voicetheunion.org.uk/action
The final report for the independent Review of Mathematics Teaching in Primary Schools and Early Years Settings and DCSF response.
Advice for Voice members
Voice: the union for education professionals has called on the Scottish Government to reduce class sizes.
Voice has welcomed the Government’s White Paper on excluded pupils, Back on Track: A strategy for modernising alternative provision for young people
Includes Anti-Bullying Guidance
General Secretary Philip Parkin has called on the Westminster Government to reconsider its examinations policy and follow the example of Wales.
Report by Steve Brown, Federation (County) Secretary, including advance notice of AGM (July 2008)
Draft specifications and specimen assessment materials (SAMs) for GCSEs (for first teaching in 2009)
Voice has welcomed the Government’s pledge to tackle cyber-bullying.
Information for members
Staying Safe plan and guidance from DCSF (school visits, keeping children safe etc) plus Voice’s comment.
Voice policy on DfES guidance etc and further information
Guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office
’Union address’ on school leaving age by Voice General Secretary Philip Parkin in "SecEd"
Statements, press briefings and further information links on wireless computer networks (wi-fi) and electro-sensitivity.
Voice/Wider Workforce has welcomed the latest announcement from the DCSF on the role and status of support staff. New body to be launched September 2008.
Voice has welcomed the publication of the new National Curriculum for Secondary Schools in England (12 July 2007).
Voice policy and statements on this issue
Discipline Stakeholder Group Joint Statement. Scotland’s Education Minister, teaching unions and other education leaders have signed up to a joint action plan designed to continue tackling indiscipline in Scottish schools.