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Voice Scotland welcomes Scottish Government's response to Commission on the Delivery of Rural Education

Commenting on the Scottish Government’s response, Jennifer Hannah, Senior Professional Officer (Scotland) with Voice: the union for education professionals, said: “We broadly welcome the Scottish Government’s response and its acceptance of most of the Commission’s recommendations.

Voice on Ofsted’s “culture of negative misinformation”

The union for education professionals has criticised Ofsted and its Chief Inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw, for a encouraging a “culture of negative misinformation”, following publication of the inspectorate’s report 'The most able students: are they doing as well as they should in our non-selective secondary schools?'

Voice: New GCSEs too soon

Commenting on the new-look GCSEs to be announced today, Ian Toone, Senior Professional Officer (Education) with Voice: the union for education professionals, and a former assistant chief examiner with AQA, said:

Voice: "Children at more risk from cancer after exposure to asbestos" says committee

Today, the Government’s advisory Committee on Carcinogenicity (COC) published their final statement that concludes children are more vulnerable to exposure to asbestos than adults - the younger the child the greater the risk. Their conclusion should have a profound influence on Government policy towards asbestos in schools.

Voice welcomes ratios U-turn

Voice: the union for education professionals – which represents nursery staff, nannies and other education and early years professionals – has welcomed news that plans to change adult: child ratios in nurseries have been dropped.

Voice: Teaching assistants play valuable role in our schools

Voice: the union for education professionals – which represents teachers and support staff, including teaching assistants – has expressed alarm at media reports that the Treasury and Department for Education (DfE) are considering phasing out teaching assistants, with staff not being replaced or retrained as teachers.

Voice launches first video - with Politics.co.uk's VoiceOver

Voice: the union for education professionals – which represents teachers, lecturers, education support staff, head teachers, nursery staff, nannies, and student teachers and childcarers across the UK – has launched its first full-length online video.

VoicetheUnion video: Why is our union different?

JUAC welcomes news that HSE will publish its written report into Cwmcarn High School

In October 2012 asbestos fibres were found in warm air cabinet heaters in Cwmcarn High School, Caerphilly, and, in subsequent tests, carried out by HSE appointed experts, it was found that asbestos fibres were being released from the school’s heaters into the classrooms.

VoicetheUnion: School spending report could do better

Voice: the union for education professionals – which represents teachers and support staff in schools – has criticised some of the key findings of the Must Do Better report from Reform.

Voice: the union for education professionals - School spending report could do better

Voice: the union for education professionals – which represents teachers and support staff in schools – has criticised some of the key findings of the Must Do Better report from Reform.

JUAC calls for transparency as confusion and concern continues at Cwmcarn

VoicetheUnion: Educate, Empower, Enable

At a time of change and uncertainty in Welsh and English education, Voice: the union for education professionals is organising a one-day conference in Bristol to “educate, empower and enable” professionals working in education, early years and childcare. The event will be held on Saturday 29 June at the Marriott Royal Hotel.

Voice calls on Nick Clegg to stand firm and block adult-child ratio changes

Voice: the union for education professionals – which represents nursery staff and nannies – has welcomed reports that Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will block changes to adult-child ratios in childcare.

JUAC: Dear David Laws - open letter to David Laws MP on asbestos concerns

Dear Mr David Laws. We are writing to you to raise a number of urgent concerns that surround the recent investigation into the asbestos contamination of Cwmcarn High School. On the 17th of April Caerphilly Council took the decision to spend £1million on the removal of asbestos materials and contamination from Cwmcarn High School to make it safe for reoccupation. The school was closed in October 2012 following a report that identified... Read more.

Voice concerned by new early years inspection regime

Voice: the union for education professionals – which represents nursery staff and nannies – has expressed its concerns about proposed changes to Ofsted inspections of nurseries and pre-schools. The independent union welcomes opportunities to raise standards but has concerns that the proposed changes will not achieve this.

Voice welcomes early years research

Voice: the union for education professionals, which represents education, early years and childcare staff across the UK, has welcomed the announcement that the DfE to spend £5 million on early years research.

Voice welcomes Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill

Voice: the union for education professionals, which represents education, early years and childcare staff across the UK, has welcomed the Children and Young People (Scotland) Bill, published today.

VoicetheUnion: Government’s childcare policies are see-saw

Commenting on the pre-Budget announcement on childcare costs, Deborah Lawson, General Secretary of Voice: the union for education professionals, which represents nursery staff and nannies, said:

VoicetheUnion: Industrial action hits children and parents, not Gove

Commenting on the announcement by NUT & NASUWT of their ‘joint strike strategy’, Deborah Lawson, General Secretary of Voice: the union for education professionals, said: “This is playing into Michael Gove’s hands. This is what he and his supporters in the press want – to be able to portray teachers as militants and ‘the enemy’."

VoicetheUnion: Education professionals in Wales are committed

Commenting on remarks by Minister for Education Leighton Andrews about education professionals in Wales “getting a grip” on poor performance, Nick Griffin, Director for Wales, with Voice: the union for education professionals, said:

VoicetheUnion: Reconciling cost, quality and affordability is the greatest challenge facing childcare

Commenting on the Daycare Trust's annual childcare costs survey, Deborah Lawson, General Secretary of Voice: the union for education professionals, commented: “Reconciling cost, quality and affordability is the greatest challenge facing the childcare industry and the Government’s early years policy."

Voice: Michael Gove's EBacc u-turn welcome news, but it calls into question his judgment

This is astonishing but welcome news. On Tuesday evening, Michael Gove was praising and promoting the EBacc in a speech to the Social Market Foundations. On Thursday morning, we learn that he will scrap the idea. This raises serious questions about his judgement and his future as Education Secretary.

Michael Gove must learn from EBacc U-turn, says Voice

Voice: the union for education professionals has welcomed news that the Government is to abandon plans to scrap GCSEs in key subjects in England and replace them with English Baccalaureate Certificates.

Voice: Regulation Matters Campaign meets Shadow Education Minister

Members of the Regulation Matters Campaign met Shadow Minister for Children and Families Sharon Hodgson MP on 29 January 2013 to discuss their concerns about the home childcare workforce. The campaigners are particularly concerned about nannies, who currently fall outside childcare and early years legislation and were not mentioned in the Government’s announcement on its childcare plans, More Great Childcare.

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