Schools in poorer areas can do more to improve children’s eating habits

Schools in more deprived areas should be doing more to entice pupils to eat at school, new research has found.

Teachers are leaving profession due to workload

Research conducted by the National Education Union (NEU) shows that workload is causing 80 per cent of teachers to consider leaving the profession.

FOI request shows lack of asbestos management in schools

The Joint Union Asbestos Committee (JUAC) has released figures which show that asbestos is not being managed enough across schools.

 Rise in job vacancies in the education sector

The education sector has seen an increase in job vacancies by 17.5 per cent, according to new statistics comparing data between February and March 2018, from the CV-Library.

The money raised will go towards doubling the Primary Sports Premium, the creation of a Healthy Pupils Capital Fund to help schools upgrade their sports facilities, and give children access to PE equipment.

The Soltan Sun Ready Schools programme from Boots is offering primary schools the chance to win £5,000 for school trips by taking part in the Sun Ready Photo Challenge.

Around 210,000 children who would not have qualified for free school meals under the former system will gain entitlement under universal credits, while 160,000 will now be ineligible.

The Sutton Trust has reported that as many as 1,000 Sure Start children’s centres have closed since 2009, which is twice as many as the government has reported.

Lack of female headteachers in secondary state schools, statistics show

Only 38 per cent of headteachers at state secondary schools in England are women, despite the majority of teachers at those schools being female, according to new research.

Poverty is harming children’s educational opportunities, union says

Growing child poverty is affecting children’s learning and education staff are increasingly providing the services and essentials of daily life to stop families “falling through the cracks”, according to NEU education professionals.

Majority of teachers believe they come into contact with pupils experiencing mental health issues

A new survey conducted by NASUWT has found that out of 1,359 teachers, 96 per cent believe they come into contact with pupils who are experiencing mental health issues.

Union calls for more teacher protection from “malicious allegations”

NASUWT is calling for more to be done to address the issue of malicious allegations being made my pupils against teachers.

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