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• Marching for fair funding for maintained nursery schools

  25-11-2021 17:25
  
  UNISON members joined a successful rally and picket outside Downing Street today to demand a fair, long term funding settlement for nursery schools.
  Since 2016, nursery schools have had to rely on interim funding that only lasts one year, despite the government promising a long term funding solution. This has resulted in the schools being unable to budget or make planning decisions. As a result, some have been threatened with closure.
  UNISON member Remi Tayo (above, yellow top), from Thomas Cora
  
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• Fairer funding for maintained nursery schools

  25-11-2021 17:25
  
  UNISON members have played their part in helping to deliver a fairer, long term funding settlement for nursery schools.
  Since 2016, nursery schools have had to rely on interim funding that only lasts one year, despite the government promising a long term funding solution. This has resulted in the schools being unable to budget or make planning decisions. As a result, some have been threatened with closure.
  UNISON member Remi Tayo (above, yellow top), from Thomas Coram nursery school joined MPs a
  
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• Alison Leary

  25-11-2021 14:59
  
  Nursing is the most trusted profession, but anyone in the UK can refer to themselves as a nurse even if they have been struck off, have no qualifications or have been convicted of a crime.
  Although the term Registered Nurse is protected under the 1997 Nurses Midwives and Health Visiting Act, the term “nurse” is not protected in the UK. It’s an issue because the term nurse is the term in common usage. Other professional titles such as physiotherapist, hearing aid dispenser, den
  
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