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• Restore free testing in schools or risk SATs disruption, warns UNISON

  06-05-2022 17:41
  
  National testing in English primary schools this year could be severely affected because of Covid absences, according to concerns raised in a UNISON survey released today (Friday).
  More than seven in ten (74%) teaching assistants and learning support staff say pupils are facing more disruption to their education than usual because school employees and children have recently been off sick with Covid.
  Additionally, 92% fear this could affect SATs (Standard Assessment Tests
  
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• UNISON police staff members vote to accept pay offer

  06-05-2022 01:10
  
  UNISON police staff members in England and Wales have voted by a margin of nearly two to one to accept the Police Staff Council employers’ pay offer for 1 September 2021 to 31 August to 2023.
  The total membership of 30,249 was balloted, with a turnout of 47.2%. Of those who voted, 64% (9,085) voted to accept, with 36% (5,195) opposing.
  UNISON’s police staff committee for England and Wales met on 4 May to consider the result and voted unanimously to accept the pay offer.
  This was the
  
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