Years of underfunding have caused rising workload, staff shortages and increasing pressure as schools struggle to absorb the pressure of rising costs.

Unfunded pay awards continue to force schools into impossible decisions about staffing, resources and support for pupils.

Children cannot thrive in underfunded schools.

That is why we are asking you to contact your MP to demand they urgently act to secure:

• significant new investment in all parts of the UK for all needs identified in relation to SEND (staffing, training and facilities);

• urgent national action to tackle excessive workload and hours;

• withdrawal of any threat to the contractual provisions on working hours (1,265 hours) within teachers’ terms and conditions; 

• the introduction in all state-funded schools of maternity provision granting 52 weeks of full pay with the funding from government to support it;

• fully funded, real-terms, above-inflation pay increases which restore the pay lost over 15 years;

• national pay and conditions for any person working in a state-funded school, including Trust Central Teams;

• accountability for academy trusts and effective, swift, mechanisms for intervention when trusts fail to manage public money effectively; and

• regulation of supply teacher agencies to ensure fair pay for supply teachers and lower costs to schools.

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