Consultation responses

Voice Official Response: Review of Teachers’ Standards Voice Official Response to DfE consultation Date: 02.06.11

Voice Official Response 1052: Review of Teacher Employment in Scotland Voice Official Response to Scottish Government consultation Date: 19.04.11

Voice Official Response 1051: Resolving workplace disputes Voice Official Response to BIS consultation  Date: 17.03.11


Voice Official Response 1048: Year 1 Phonics Screening Check Consultation. 14.02.2011
Voice Official Response to DCSF consultation

Voice response to Classroom Risk Assessment (HSE).
Voice response to Health and Safety Executive consultation. 14/10/2011

Voice Official Response 1049: GTCS Registration and Standard Rules Framework. 10.01.2011
Voice Official Response to General Teaching Council for Scotland consultation

Voice Official Response 1050: GTCS Elections and Appointment Procedures. 10.01.2011
Voice Official Response to General Teaching Council for Scotland consultation

Criminal Records Review
Official response to Criminal Records Review led by the Government's Independent Advisor on Criminality Information Management. 11.11.2010

Voice Official Response 1045: Green Paper: Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities.
Voice Official Response to DfE consultation. 15.10.2010

Voice Official Response 1039: Consultation on the draft Early Years (0-6) Strategy (Northern Ireland. 14.10.2010
Voice Official Response to DENI consultation.

Education Select Committee Inquiry into behaviour and discipline in schools (OR1042). 07.10.2010
Voice submitted an Official Response and gave oral evidence to the Commons Select Committee.

Review of Health and Safety and the Compensation Culture.
Response to Lord Young of Graffham, Advisor on Health and Safety to the Prime Minister. 29.06.2010

Voice Official Response 1038: Review of Teacher Education in Scotland.
Voice Official Response to Scottish Government consultation. 15.06.2010

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Policy on Academies. 14.06.2010

Voice Official Response 1037: Consultation on Regulations to Reduce Primary 1 Classes to a Maximum of 25 Pupils.
Voice Official Response to Scottish Government consultation. 08.06.2010

Voice Official Response 1036: Public Consultation on Continuing Need for a Controlled Activity Category in the Vetting and Barring Scheme.
Voice Official Response to DCSF consultation. 25.05.2010

Voice Official Response 1034: Revised Guidance on Safeguarding Children and Safer Recruitment in Education.
Voice Official Response to DCSF consultation. 25.05.2010

Voice Official Response 1035: Consultation on statutory requirements and advice, for CRB disclosures for safeguarding purposes, on workers already registered with the Independent Safeguarding Authority.
Voice Official Response to DCSF consultation. 25.05.2010

Voice Official Response 1033: Sex and Relationship Education Guidance.
Voice Official Response to DCSF consultation. 19.04.2010

Voice Official Response 1032: School Improvement Partner Consultation.
Voice Official Response to National College/DCSF consultation. 09.04.2010

Voice Official Response 1031: Regulating for confidence in standards.
Voice Official Response to Ofqual consultation. 08.03.2010

Voice Official Response 1030: Scottish Government's Class Sizes Policy.
Voice Official Response to Scottish Parliamentary Committee consultation 24.02.2010

Voice Official Response 1029: Drugs: Guidance for Schools.
Voice Official Response to DCSF consultation 15.02.2010

Voice Official Response 1028: Consultation on New Statutory Children's Trust Guidance and New. 29.01.2010
Children and Young People's Plan Regulations
Voice Official Response to DCSF consultation

Election Manifesto 2010 21.01.2010
Voice's Manifesto of key points it would like to see addressed in the General Election.

Voice Official Response 1027: Health and Safety of Learners Outside the Classroom (HASLOC) 10.01.2010 - Revision of guidance
Voice Official Response to DCSF consultation

Early Years and Childcare Code of Practice
Guidance: professional code for childcarers. Advice for practising professional childcarers in carrying out their duties and responsibilities. 01.01.2010

Faith schools
Policy on faith schools. 01.01.2010

Industrial action
Policy on strikes and industrial action. 01.01.2010

Voice Official Response 1024: Every School A Good School:The Way Forward for Special Educational Needs (SEN) and Inclusion (Northern Ireland)
Voice official response to DENI consultation. 10.12.09

Voice Official Response 1026: Home Education
Voice official response to DCSF consultation. 19.10.09

Voice Official Response 1025: Proposed merger between Derby College and South East Derbyshire College
Voice official response to LSC consultation. 02.10.09

Voice Official Response: Handling Allegations of Abuse made against Adults who Work with Children and Young People
Voice Official Response to DCSF Consultation. 03.08.09

Voice Official Response: Changes to the national curriculum in England
Voice Official Response to QCA public consultation on changes to the national curriculum in England. 23.07.09

Voice Official Response 1022: The blacklisting of trade unionists: revised draft regulations
Voice Official Response to BERR/BIS consultation. 17.07.09

Allegations Against School Staff
Written evidence submitted by Voice on 8 May 2009 to House of Commons Children, Schools and Families Committee inquiry. 16.07.09

Voice Official Response 1021: Consultation on the future status of the GTCS
Voice Scotland Official Response to Scottish Government consultation. 25.06.09

Voice Official Response 1017: 2020 Children's and young people workforce strategy
Voice Official Response to DCSF consultation. 03.03.09

Voice Official Response to draft GTC Code of Conduct and Practice
Voice response to consultation by General Teaching Council for England. 27.02.09

Voice Official Response 1019: Revision of the Standard for Chartered Teacher (Scotland)
Voice Scotland Official Response to General Teaching Council for Scotland consultation. 23.02.09

Early Years and Childcare Code of Practice
Guidance: professional code for childcarers. Advice for practising professional childcarers in carrying out their duties and responsibilities. 01.01.09

Faith schools
Voice's policy on faith schools. 01.01.09

Industrial action
Voice's policy on strikes and industrial action. 01.01.09

Academies
Voice's policy on Academies. 01.01.09

Press Releases

Voice: Feeling stressed? Understand yourself? Now, move forward Conference

Application forms are now available for an exciting conference in Manchester. The fun-packed day will give you practical solutions and advice on managing stress and time to help you achieve a work/life balance.

Voice welcomes Committee’s “Great Teachers” report

Voice: the union for education professionals has welcomed the publication by the House of Commons Education Committee of its report Great teachers: attracting, training and retaining the best (1 May 2012).

Voice: SEN support scheme "targets only the elite – or ‘talented’ as the DfE describes them"

Voice: the union for education professionals has commented on the DfE’s £500,000 scholarship scheme for SEN support staff launched today (18 April 2012).

Voice: Cutting child benefit punishes children not parents

Commenting on a recommendation by Charlie Taylor, the Government’s Expert Adviser on Behaviour, that parents of children in England who persistently truant should have their child benefit cut, Philip Parkin, General Secretary of Voice: the union for education professionals, said:

Voice: We are pleased that the Government has taken on board the key recommendations

Voice: the union for education professionals has commented on the Revised Early Years Foundation Stage Framework published today (27 March 2012).

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