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NORTH YORKSHIRE FEDERATION LOCAL SECRETARIES Please keep informed via our blog [email protected] and twitter @C_Head_nasuwt Barkston Ash: Celia Kennedy 01904 700553 EDITORIAL Action Campaign - Talks resumed the week following Easter and one of the Ministers [email protected] Any reasonably minded person will appreciate that the Lobbying Act is a nasty invidious attended. Whilst we oppose this Government’s : piece of legislation which attacks free speech direction of travel we will engage in order to th secure some improvements for members. Jo Normanshire 07474 670858 and trade unions effective from 19 Workload, accountability and pensions were [email protected] September. The NASUWT is looking at implications but the difficulty is much of it is discussed in first round of talks, it was agreed the DfE would give guidance on ensuring equalities Richmond & Hambleton: enabling legislation therefore not detailed in the Bill. The act could restrict what unions impact duties are met and to review impact of Matt Marlow 07950 504262 can do and say during an election period to working longer. [email protected] £10,000. At about 4p a member (one stamp costs more) it will effectively gag Trade Colleagues, there is only a year before the : Unions like ours. This is exactly the sort of General Election, it is essential that we engage Steve Carrigan 01765 600643 Law that authoritarian governments enact! with other teachers and the public telling them what this coalition has really done to education. [email protected] Please Contact your MP on this issue by going to www.nasuwt.org.uk/ContactYourMP. We need to encourage people to vote for Scarborough: education and in doing that vote for a change of government. Ann Bircumshaw 07581 224736 School Teachers Pay & Conditions [email protected] Document 2014 - DfE is working on this UK Education ranked second in Eu- document which implements the STRB 23rd rope /Settle: Report. There is real concern that the DfE are UK Education sixth in the world says Pearson/ Dave Whitwell 01756 748689 tinkering with it and including changes that Education Intelligence Unit check out the facts were not part of the report. Example; they [email protected] on; want to include reference points for Head http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27314075 : teacher’s salaries but remove those for classroom teachers. Steve Maltby 01947 841000 NORTH YORSHIRE FEDERATION LOCAL ASSOCIA- TIONS Dates of next meetings [email protected] Inspecting the inspectors - for the new online facility enabling you to have your say about Barkston Ash : OGM 5 pm Tuesday 10th June, The Owl, Hambleton, nr , 01904 700553 your Ofsted inspector go to; Harrogate : OGM 4.30 Tuesday 3rd June, Ashville www.nasuwt.org.uk May 2014 No. 48 College Drama Studio 07736059207 NASUWT will be holding a series of Richmond/Hambleton : Summer Social 20th June members’ briefings around the country which 01325355958 / 07950504262 will link in with Performance Management Ripon : 01756748689/07981733965 all members and informal capabilities as we come to the invited to the Harrogate, and R&H events. end of the first cycle of the Govian Scarborough : Social Friday 27th June, Performance Management. As a result of this The Providence, Yedingham Coalition’s education policies there has been 07581224736/07981733965 Skipton/Settle : TBC 019476748689 an significant increase in casework. If you are Whitby: AGM 4pm Caedmon School Thursday 22nd likely to need representation please try and May 2013 01947 841000/07981733965 give us 10 working days notice of any meetings, hearings, e.t.c.. BIRMINGHAM 2014

NATIONAL CONFERENCE REPORT Federation & Barkston Ash Association One of the highlights of Friday evening was the General Secretary's (Chris Keates) address. She spoke President’s visit and Social Evening to a packed hall for well over an hour, with energy and Free for members and their families enthusiasm, setting the tone for the whole conference. Food at 6 pm and First Drink free! She managed to be suitably scathing of the coalition's th damaging education policies, but always with the right Tuesday 10 June mix of seriousness and humour. The Owl in Hambleton YO8 9JH

This is a special time for schools with On Saturday morning the debates began in earnest the Action Short of Strike Action Live music from Graham Hodge after the continuing and further strikes possible, President’s address. with a discussion of Michael Gove's disastrous attack try and attend and put your questions Families are welcome. on the professional status of teachers. Later, the and comments about important issues in education to Geoff Branner the shadow Secretary of State for education, Tristram Hunt National President of the NASUWT… (MP), gave a worthy and positive speech to conference assuring all present that the next Labour government would do its best to work with teachers, rather than ignoring them as Gove seems to be doing. He also stated Labour’s opposition to the removal of the requirement for Teachers to have QTS and the concern about the lack of accountability with academies and free schools and the need for the Local Authority to have a greater role. Chris Keates gave a generous response, but didn't hesitate to remind him that we'll need more than kind and reassuring words in the years ahead. Contact Celia Kennedy 01904 700553 mobile 07968 370961 [email protected] or Fletcher Eyres 01757 288715 by 8th June please to book food. The afternoon debate was a spirited, often angry, discussion about Ofsted not being 'fit for purpose.' In FREE SUMMER SOCIAL FOR NASUWT MEMBERS AND A the independent sector they have HMC (Head Masters' GUEST! Conference) who perform inspections. They largely HARROGATE NASUWT PRESENT mirror Ofsted's structure but not, it seems, their judgmental and intrusive approach. It was deeply BBQ/BUFFET AND BAND saddening to listen to the stories of so many teachers whose lives have been taken to the brink of despair by AT THE BEST WESTERN DOWER HOUSE HOTEL an organisation devoted not to improving teaching and learning, but to a regime of box ticking and failing 7 FOR 7.30 FRIDAY 20TH JUNE schools in preparation for privatisation.

On Sunday the first debate was over pay and What more could you ask for – just as it seems we will never get to the end of term conditions, and the contributing teachers stressed over we have a FREE social event to keep you going. At the beautiful Dower House Knarsborough where the food is superb and the location spectacular. A FREE and over again the need to restore national levels of barbecue, buffet and band for you and a guest so we can be outdoors if the sun pay, awarded on the basis of merit and not at the whim shines and indoors if not! This is the first formal social event from the new Harrogate of SLTs demanding more and more for less. That team so we hope lots of you can come and meet us. This event MUST be pre- evening there was a social in Hall 3 of the ICC from booked and once we are full we are full! Please book your places asap by e-mailing me at the address below. If you have received this in the post, please update your e- 9pm till midnight. It filled up quickly, and we were mail address at the nasuwt website if possible. entertained by a band called Junction 3, who played a [email protected] great selection of hits from the ‘70s’, '80s & '90s: a perfect way to spend a Sunday evening! We hope to see you on the 20th June! Jo Normanshire (Secretary) and Michelle Wittleton (Treasurer) The National Conference is the parliament of the Union and it was great seeing our Union’s democratic machinery in action. We're playing a long game, and we're going to win. There were delegates from 4 of our 7 Local Associations, some for the first time, why don’t you think of attending next year or the Regional Conference at over a weekend in November? The Dower House Hotel