Ofsted has failed to take seriously the enormous concerns of the profession. It is a discredited organisation with its name continually in the mud. It is incapable of introspection or change – time to #AbolishOfsted and replace it with a new system that is supportive, effective

"I know of another trust where £90,000 was spent on providing Teslas for their senior leadership team. So, yes, I think, accountability at that top level would be welcome." Daniel Kebede gives a clear message to MPs: financial mismanagement in academy trusts cannot continue.

Incoming rant about Ofsted announcement of their report cards which they think are going to improve things when it’ll be just more of the same.

A full house and great energy at our Lancashire Reps Spring Training Day. Key themes ✅Organising ✅Bargaining ✅Recruiting ✅Campaigning ✅Building for the Ballot #FundFairPay #AbolishOfsted Daniel Kebede National Education Union

📣 Through their collective action, our sixth-form teaching members have secured funding for an above-inflation pay award, guaranteeing the integrity of their collective bargaining. A hard-earned win, well done! neu.org.uk/press-releases…

📋NEU’s 7 key concerns about Ofsted’s proposed new system 🔗Links to proposals and the consultation 🔗Links to the NEUs Ofsted Risk Assessment resource. 👍🏻submit your views & ensure the risk assessment is adopted and used in your school/college. neu.org.uk/campaigns/abol…

People voted for change and a fairer society. Instead of butchering benefits, which will only harm the most vulnerable, a Labour chancellor should focus on taxing wealth. Austerity is ended in deeds not words. An end to austerity is what was promised. This is not it.

In Jan there was a conference: Breathing achievement into every classroom This conference was designed to probe the link between Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in educational buildings and the health, wellbeing, and educational outcomes of students. UKHSA presented & IAQ experts. 1/🧵

Important to reflect, but also be aware of an ongoing pandemic. ~10K cert COVID deaths in 2024, majority underlying. Millions suffer #LongCovid . Yet, IPC cell denies airborne transmission. HCW & patients unprotected. Kids exposed to repeat infections. Living with ≠ ignore 💔

Public health on the frontline: responding to COVID-19 | Local Government Association local.gov.uk/our-support/co…

Disability benefit cuts are a 'violation of human rights', charities say bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

The government must follow through on the Prime Minister’s commitment that ‘those with broadest shoulders should bear the heaviest burden’ and hold firm on fixing public services and investing in growth. tuc.org.uk/news/chancello…

Reeves’s national insurance hike could cancel out Labour’s 6500 new teachers pledge liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/reeve…

Today’s stats reveal 4.5 million children are trapped in poverty in the UK. Shockingly, the harsh eligibility criteria means that 1 in 3 of them will be considered too wealthy to access free school meals – their families must be on an income of less than £7,400 a year. No

Labour's historic attack on disabled people is already wrecking lives. Just ask Kevin | John Harris theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Ella Kissi-Debrah: Statue unveiled of London girl who inspired Sadiq Khan's Ulez standard.co.uk/news/london/st…

Here’s another way of accessing Broadsheet #1 #NEU2025

Ofsted’s planned changes to inspection ‘will continue to drive excessive pressure, with the very real risk of causing further, preventable deaths’, a coalition, including unions ASCL, NAHT, NASUWT and National Education Union, warns the education secretary tes.com/magazine/news/…

On #IWMD an open letter signed by school leaders, national organisations, ex-school inspectors, trade unions & Professor Julia Waters, whose sister Ruth Perry died in 2023. This letter is being sent on the final day of #Ofsted’s consultation #AbolishOfsted National Education Union

To grow food, we need nature. The UK Government must increase investment in nature friendly farming. #NatureCantWait Sign and share the petition. action.rspb.org.uk/page/156168/pe…