Education funding

Duncan Morrison speaks at the National Education Union (NEU) annual conference 2026. Duncan was speaking for an amendment to a motion on 'welfare not warfare', pointing out that while that is an important principle, it is important that it does not stop the union supporting nations defending...

Delegate Theo Whitworth speaks at the National Education Union (NEU) annual conference 2026. Theo was speaking in favour of Motion 28, which committed the union to campaign against school closure. It was a composite motion, and included this text.

The National Education Union’s (NEU) parallel indicative ballot of support staff and teachers working in schools closed on Friday 17 April. The ballot question for teachers was over the government’s proposed unfunded 6.5% pay increase over 3 years. In the ballot, 96% rejected it with only 4%...

Motion 16 calls on the union to improve its organising and representation in the independent sector. That's fine, but we are a bit concerned about Notes 2, which points out that "The IS membership is experiencing prolonged and unprecedented disruption due to economic pressures, including Covid-19...

On Wednesday 1 April at 9am, conference will debate motions in the education, policy and funding section of the agenda. The areas covered by the three motions are behaviour in schools, SEND provision, and academisation. We recommend supporting the motions and most of the amendments, with details...

by Luke Woodward The money is there Yesterday I went to a friend’s house for dinner. Another guest told us how his software company had recently posted a new job description: HR something something, £110,000 plus bonuses. They are about to put on a conference in Europe, flying bosses from the USA...

The National Education Union’s (NEU) indicative ballot on pay, funding and workload opens on Saturday 28 February. The ballot question for teachers will be: 1. Do you reject the proposal of an unfunded 6.5% increase over three years for teacher pay? 2. Are you prepared to take industrial action to...

In the early 2000s, around 660 Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts were signed. Stoke-on-Trent’s contract is one of the earliest of these to end, leaving a £3.5m repair bill for the City Council to find, while the PFI bosses have made a fortune. 88 schools in Stoke-on-Trent were maintained by...

Firstly, get on NEU MAT Finance training. Here are some pointers in the meantime when looking at MAT accounts. Firstly, these can be found online at Companies House. MATs are required to register their accounts annually by December 31st. Bigger MATs need their numbers to be multiplied eg. Delta...

The Financial Times (FT) on 6 November carried an article about a report from the Institute for Government (IfG). The report stated “that enough primary school places to fill around 23,000 classrooms were left empty across England last year, the highest level since records began.” The FT reports...