Local wins 

Teachers and support staff at UCL Academy took part in strike action as a last resort - to stand up for a better school environment for children and all staff.

Concerns were:

• inconsistent and unsafe behaviour systems

• pressures on staff planning, preparation and assessment (PPA) time

• increasing workload and class size proposals

• threats to job security

• staff well-being and absence policies

• leadership and communication issues

• insufficient action against discrimination

After 4 days of strike action, NEU members at UCL Academy won:

•  19% timetabled, protected PPA Time for all teachers

• 🎯 PPA time for LSA support staff

• 🎯 Rarely cover applied to all non SLT teaching staff

• 🎯 A new Teaching & Learning policy that withdraws heightened observations

• 🎯 An Independent external investigation into management practices with providers and terms of reference to be agreed with NEU

• 🎯 A review of the curriculum to meaningfully integrate anti-racism, LGBTQ+ equality, disability equality and anti-misogyny

• 🎯 Overseas-trained teachers to be paid on par with UK trained teachers of same experience

• 🎯 And much more on behaviour support, health & safety, sickness and absence practice, redundancies, discrimination, and management practices

Congratulations to everyone involved!

Join us at our first GM of the new academic year (Tuesday 23rd September, 5-6.30pm) to hear more on this action from Danny and Sarah (The UCL Academy Reps).