A poll conducted in the week after Rishi Sunak called the General Election found more than three quarters support universal provision of free school meals in primary schools
With dozens of local authorities facing bankruptcy, a collapse in teacher recruitment, an unprecedented level of teacher resignations, collapsing school buildings, an acceleration of the academies and free schools programme and a witch hunt against teachers opposing the Gaza genocide, both unions went on the stump for Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer as saviour.
Schools and universities have been at the forefront of a campaign of victimisation, harassment, sackings and disciplinary measures directed at supressing the anger and outrage among children and teachers alike to the mass killings of the Palestinians.
A survey of 8,000 members of the UK's largest education union found that 68% of teachers in schools, nurseries and colleges worked in buildings which have leaks from the rain