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Inquiry opens into Battle of Orgreave during miners’ strike

The Bishop of Sheffield, Dr Pete Wilcox, has launched a call for evidence for the official inquiry into the 1984 Battle of Orgreave. The government-appointed inquiry will investigate the violent clashes between striking miners and police outside a South Yorkshire coking plant. It possesses statutory powers to compel evidence from…

The Independent UK

England school strikes called off as unions vote to accept pay deal

Members accepted 6.5% pay rise, but said it was not enough to correct decade of real-terms pay cuts

The Guardian - UK

UK’s biggest teaching union votes to end strike action

The National Education Union (NEU) said members agreed to accept progress made on pay and funding and halt industrial action

The Independent UK

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Union accepts pay rise for teachers in England and calls off strikes

Overall, 86% of National Education Union teacher members in England voted to accept the progress made in the dispute and end industrial action.

The Independent UK

September school strikes possible as rebel teachers in England set to reject pay offer

Some local branches to defy teaching unions’ advice to accept deal over recruitment concerns

The Guardian - UK

Pay rise of 6.5% would end teachers’ strikes, says union boss

‘Impossible to say’ whether government will accept pay review body proposal, says Tory minister

The Independent UK

Pay rise of 6.5% would end England’s teacher strikes, union leader suggests

Mary Bousted urges ministers to publish recommendation from pay body, thought to be 6.5%, and fund schools to pay it

The Guardian - UK

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Students and parents to face disruption as teachers in England go on strike over pay

End-of-year activities and transition days are set to be disrupted amid the latest wave of walkouts by National Education Union members

The Independent UK

Families face disruption as teachers in England stage fresh strikes over pay

End-of-year activities and transition days are set to be disrupted amid the latest wave of walkouts by National Education Union members.

The Independent UK

‘Desperate and angry’ headteachers in England ready to join strikes in autumn

Unions ballot members about coordinated action that will lead to many more school closures

The Guardian - UK

Teachers to stage two-day strike action before the end of school term

Members of the National Education Union (NEU) will walk out on Wednesday, July 5, and Friday, July 7.

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Schools across England face unprecedented struggle to hire English teachers as recruitment crisis grows

Headteachers say situation is critical as they try to fill vacancies for September

The Guardian - UK

Ofsted school inspection reforms ‘nowhere near enough’

Sister of Ruth Perry, who killed herself after her primary was downgraded, ‘disappointed’ single-word judgments not removed

The Guardian - UK

Pupils in families using food banks during pandemic ‘received lower GCSE grades’

More than a third of young people in families using food banks were not eligible for free school meals, a report suggests.

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The Guardian - UK

All state schools in England may shut in ‘unprecedented’ coordinated strikes

Four main teaching unions could unite after ‘months of stonewalling’ from education secretary Gillian Keegan

Evening Standard

Teachers to be balloted on whether to hold further strikes, NEU announces

Further strikes are already planned for next week and during the summer term

The Guardian - UK

Schools across England close as teachers vow to continue strikes

NEU members highlight pay erosion as well as high workload and crumbling school facilities

The Independent UK

Government living in ‘fantasy world’ over funding for education, NEU boss says

Striking NEU members marched with their children and chanted ‘I’ve got 99 problems and cuts to education funding has caused all of them’.

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The Guardian - UK

Teachers’ strikes: NEU accuses government of refusing to negotiate

Union co-head apologises to parents on fifth day of England and Northern Ireland strikes, saying it is ‘not what members want’

Evening Standard

Education body urges a restart to teacher pay talks

No further talks are planned amid caution over a continued stalemate

Manchester Evening News

Teachers' union leader calls for urgent talks with Tories to avert next school strikes

The National Education Union said it would meet Education Secretary Gillian Keegan for crunch negotiations on Monday morning

Daily Mirror

Teachers' union leader call for urgent talks with Tories to avert next school strikes

The National Education Union said it would meet Education Secretary Gillian Keegan for crunch negotiations on Monday morning - if the Cabinet Minister was willing

The Independent UK

No ‘reason to doubt’ school inspection after death of headteacher – Ofsted chief

Ruth Perry, who was headteacher at Caversham Primary School in Reading, took her own life in January while waiting for an Ofsted report.

The Guardian - UK

NEU threatens huge Manchester protest during Tory conference

National Education Union says government is ‘rattled’ after delegates vote for summer strikes in England

The Independent UK

Keegan ‘living in fantasy world’ over challenges facing schools – union boss

Children are ‘bearing the brunt of the workforce crisis’ in schools, said Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union.

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