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NASUWT This is the official page of NASUWT - The Teachers' Union. The NASUWT is not just a servicing union but an organising one.

It provides members with a range of CPD opportunities and courses designed to give them a voice in the workplace.

29/07/2026

NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union statement on the Berlin Pride attack:

This weekend, many of our LGBTI members, along with their friends, families and allies, will be attending Pride events across the UK, including Brighton Pride - the UK's largest Pride celebration.

Following the horrific terrorist attack at Berlin Pride, we know that many people in our community may be feeling a mixture of sadness, anger and anxiety. An attack on Pride is an attack on the values of equality, inclusion and freedom that trade unions have long championed.

Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the victim, with everyone who was injured, and with all those whose lives have been affected by this appalling act of violence. We also stand with Germany’s LGBTI community, recognising that this attack sought to spread fear and undermine the values of openness, respect and freedom that we all cherish.

We know that many teachers and education professionals will now be supporting children and young people who are distressed, confused or frightened by these events. As educators, you will once again demonstrate compassion, professionalism and resilience as you help their pupils and communities come to terms with this tragedy.

Pride has always been about visibility, community and the collective belief that everyone deserves to live, work and learn free from discrimination, hatred and violence. Those values are shared by our union and remain as important today as ever.

The international trade union movement is strongest when it stands together. NASUWT stands alongside GEW, The German Education Union, in condemning hatred, violence and extremism in all its forms, and in reaffirming our shared commitment to equality, democracy, human rights and safe, inclusive schools and communities for everyone.

To every teacher attending Pride this weekend: we hope you have a safe and enjoyable time celebrating who you are. Know that your union stands proudly alongside you, not just during Pride, but every day of the year.

🚨 Education can’t wait – we need help now!New Prime Minister Andy Burnham and new Education Secretary Lucy Powell have a...
21/07/2026

🚨 Education can’t wait – we need help now!

New Prime Minister Andy Burnham and new Education Secretary Lucy Powell have a chance to make real change. Here are some changes that our education system desperately needs.

“At the last general election, people voted for real and immediate change. The difficulties facing Labour today are a direct result of the fact that millions of people do not feel that change has happened sufficiently or quickly enough,” says NASUWT General Secretary Matt Wrack.

“Andy Burnham has the chance to change that. It is a limited chance and voters will watch closely. His challenge is whether he actually delivers or is seen as simply delivering more of the same.

“In education we need an end to austerity, outsourcing and privatisation that serves only to line the pockets of big business while children and families lose out on the frontline support they have a right to expect.

“If the new Prime Minister is serious about changing the life chances of children and young people he must recognise that you cannot build a world-class education system on the cheap.

“Anything less than long‑term, sustained investment in schools and the teaching profession is simply managing the decay of the status quo.

“Real change also means restoring national pay and conditions, fixing the broken pay progression system, delivering a national workload reduction deal, rebuilding SEND provision, replacing Ofsted with an improvement‑focused body, and tackling the profiteering that has siphoned money away from classrooms for far too long. This will be a test of if the new Prime Minister is prepared to break with the failed orthodoxies of the past.”

Matt Wrack has written an article for the Labour Outlook website on the education priorities NASUWT wants to see Andy Bu...
17/07/2026

Matt Wrack has written an article for the Labour Outlook website on the education priorities NASUWT wants to see Andy Burnham adopt.

He said: "When Andy Burnham becomes the next Prime Minister, he will not have long to prove that Labour is capable of breaking with the failures of the past.

"He must deliver real change and show that a Labour Government can take on obscene inequality, create secure jobs, and restore hope.

"The harsh reality he faces is that if he is not seen to deliver, any honeymoon will be short-lived.

"And his commitment to real change will be judged in education as elsewhere."

Full article link in comments below 👇

Great memories from the Big Meeting.
11/07/2026

Great memories from the Big Meeting.

11/07/2026

Teachers have been out in strength today standing up for education and enjoying a great day at the Durham Miners Gala.We spoke to NASUWT members about their experiences at the Gala and what it means to them.

⚠️ What happens when teachers are cut out of pastoral care in schools?Teachers at Graham School, Vale of York Academy an...
09/07/2026

⚠️ What happens when teachers are cut out of pastoral care in schools?

Teachers at Graham School, Vale of York Academy and Manor C of E Academy in Yorkshire don’t want to find out – but if Heartwood Learning Trust gets its way, in September, teachers will be cut out of pastoral leadership roles like Head of Year and Director of Behaviour, and replaced with Learning Managers. These Learning Managers will not be qualified teachers and will not spend a lot of time in the classroom…but they will be cheaper than experienced teachers.

Heartwood Learning Trust appears to have a reserve of £9 million. They can afford to keep teachers in pastoral leadership roles alongside the new Learning Managers. The teachers see all of their roles thriving and progressing together, especially since:

✅️ Current pastoral care at these schools has been praised by pupils, parents and Ofsted.

✅️ Teachers are the ones building relationships with pupils in the classroom all day.

👀 The new pastoral structure has already been trialled at another Trust school, where it failed and had to be reversed.

🚨 When leadership roles disappear for teachers, their paths into leadership grow smaller. That means a future where fewer experienced, qualified teachers lead schools and trusts, and instead, leadership roles are occupied by people with little classroom experience. Is that what schools really need?

Teachers at the affected schools took a day of strike action this week to call for their pastoral leadership roles to be reinstated for September. They don’t think their pupils should lose out, and they don’t want to lose the roles they have worked so hard to develop.

Please share this post to say NO to teachers being cut out of pastoral leadership at Heartwood Learning Trust schools!

09/07/2026

It's Durham Miner's Gala on Saturday 11th July. Please come along and join NASUWT members from across the North East, and our award winning NASUWT Riverside Band on the march. Its a great day out for the family, and children are very welcome. Meet us on the steps at the Radisson Blu at 8.15am on Saturday.

08/07/2026

What do teachers love more than anything? Organising ✅️

We love an organised classroom, and we love getting organised in our trade union!

At our first ever Reps’ Education Summit, NASUWT’s workplace representatives came together to celebrate the launch of our new organising strategy and plan how to improve education for everyone.

Teachers know that the future of education is at risk.

⚠️ Dwindling resources.

⚠️ Broken support systems.

⚠️ Crumbling school buildings, shrinking pay packets.

⚠️ Your class sizes and workloads keep growing, but the help on offer is fading, and it all comes down to the same thing: there just isn’t enough money.

Teachers and children need solutions before it’s too late. In order to Fix Our Future, the government must Fund Education – the two go hand in hand. We have to fund fairness, and we have to fund hope.

We're organising for hope. Are you with us?

📣 Teachers...how would YOU Fix Our Future?We've had an incredible day at our first Reps' Education Summit. Over 300 teac...
07/07/2026

📣 Teachers...how would YOU Fix Our Future?

We've had an incredible day at our first Reps' Education Summit. Over 300 teachers from across England joined us to launch Fix Our Future, Fund Education – your new multimedia organising campaign.

Today, we had one thing on our minds: how can we futureproof education for everyone, and how can trade union organising form the backbone of our work?

One of the most valuable things we can do as activists is to share our strategies, celebrate our successes, and support each other through times of challenge. Together, we are not only stronger – we are a community and a movement, there to make positive change for all. We really felt that today!

👀 This is just the beginning of our campaign. Teachers, get stuck into our new organising tools and figure out how you and your colleagues can get involved.

Teachers know all about raising the next generation. Nobody is better placed to lead us into the future, and now is the time. Education funding – and teachers' working conditions – may be stuck in the past, but we have the power to take things forward.

Fix Our Future. Fund Education. The two go hand in hand 🤝

🚨 Schools will once again be expected to fund the first 1% of the teachers' pay award from existing budgets. At a time w...
01/07/2026

🚨 Schools will once again be expected to fund the first 1% of the teachers' pay award from existing budgets.

At a time when many schools are already reducing staffing, cutting clubs, trips, courses, and making redundancies to balance their budgets, this will place even greater pressure on school finances.

Teachers should not have to pay for their own pay award through cuts to the education service. Pay increases should not be funded by sacking school staff or by increasing the workload of remaining staff, but we know this is already happening. Unless something changes, it will continue.

The government keeps making real terms cuts and expecting teachers and pupils to pay the price. This cannot continue.

Fix Our Future. Fund Education. Fully fund the teachers' pay award.

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