Teaching assistants in Wales have welcomed moves to improve their employment conditions and pay.
There are more than 38,000 teaching assistants working in schools in Wales. Typically they are mainly female, “very poorly paid and lack any career development and training”, said Unison, the largest union representing them.
A group, which includes head teachers and teaching assistants, has now been set up by the Welsh Government to look at their working conditions. Pay is decided by local councils, not the Welsh Government, but the group’s work will feed into that.
