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• Academy orders issued to schools in Hallam Diocese ‘unlawfully’, say education unions

  08-02-2022 17:35
  
  Unions representing staff in schools across the Catholic Diocese of Hallam have written to the Secretary of State for Education to begin legal action over letters they received informing them that they would be forced to join Multi-Academy Trusts.
  The letters, issued by the Regional Schools Commissioner – who works directly for the Education Secretary – were issued on the 15th December 2021, and sent to all Voluntary Aided schools in the Catholic Diocese of Hallam.  The Diocese
  
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• No fresh ideas to deal with growing NHS staffing crisis, says UNISON 

  08-02-2022 15:08
  
  Commenting on the health secretary’s plan to deal with the NHS Covid backlog, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
  “There’s nothing new to see here. Without fresh ideas to deal with the growing NHS staffing crisis or the broken care system, services won’t be there for those needing help.
  “Demoralised, overworked, underpaid staff are quitting the NHS every day. There’s a complete absence of thinking from ministers on how to hold on to experienced emp
  
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• NAAS scrapped after hard UNISON campaigning

  08-02-2022 11:53
  
  After years of strong, coordinated campaigning by UNISON, the department for education (DfE) has announced that the national assessment and accreditation scheme (NAAS) for children’s social workers will be closed in March 2022.
  The DfE says that this decision was taken following feedback from social workers, councils and trusts as well as learning from comparable professions that have moved towards remote assessment during the pandemic.
  UNISON has campaigned for NAAS to be scrapped from it
  
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