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Thank You to All Our Campaigners Election battleground In detention ‘We care’ How we pushed education up The 300,000 children coping The school where wellbeing the political agenda. See page 6. with a parent in jail. See page 22. comes first. See page 30. January/ February 2020 Thank you Your magazine from the National Education Union to all our campaigners for valuing education TUC best membership communication print journal 2019 Enrich your teaching. Inspire your students. Become an examiner with AQA ✔ Build your knowledge of the specification to help with mock exam marking (GCSEs and A-levels). ✔ Receive training and support. ✔ Great for your CPD to support career progression. ✔ Earn £500 - £1000. aqa.org.uk/apply Marking takes less than 01483 556 161 four weeks, working [email protected] flexibly from home Educate January/February 2020 Welcome NEU supporters on the campaign trail in Norwich. Photo: Gawain Little Election battleground In detention ‘We care’ I WRITE this on the morning after the General Election. The How we pushed education up The 300,000 children coping The school where wellbeing the political agenda. See page 6. with a parent in jail. See page 22. comes first. See page 30. Conservatives will be the party of government for the next five January/ February 2020 years. What will this mean for NEU members? At this stage the future is very unclear. The Conservatives’ education manifesto contained an ambiguous pledge to “ensure that Thank you Your magazine from the National Education Union to all our parents can choose the schools that best suit their children”, which campaigners for valuing education could mean more selective schools, but we shall have to see. Another pledge made by the Conservatives was to introduce a trial of no-notice Ofsted inspections and to increase the length of inspections from two to three days. It is hard to think of anything which would be more unpopular with teachers and school leaders than a promise of longer, unannounced Ofsted inspections – a proposal which has been floated before and halted as the profession pointed out its obvious flaws. TUC best membership communication print journal 2019 The NEU ran a hugely successful campaign throughout the election urging education professionals, parents and the public to vote NEU president: for education. We urged all the political parties to end school cuts, Amanda Martin to end child poverty, to replace Ofsted with a fair way of evaluating NEU joint general secretaries: schools and to end high-stakes tests. Mary Bousted & Kevin Courtney It is safe, I think, to say that the new Government is not going to prioritise these issues. Be assured, however, that the NEU will continue Editor: Rebecca Branford to campaign to change our education system so that teachers can Editorial assistant: thrive in, and enjoy, their work. We assess the outlook for education Sarah Thompson and workplace rights and the priorities for action in our election coverage (pages 6-9). Journalists: And the NEU will continue to shine a spotlight on the effects of Sally Gillen, Emily Jenkins, child poverty on life chances. Max Watson This edition of Educate also examines the plight of children with Newsdesk a parent in custody and outlines how teachers can support them. And t: 020 7380 4760 we tell the story of one teacher and mother’s e: [email protected] life-or-death struggle to secure the help her anorexic daughter Design & subbing: Amanda Ellis needed, in a landscape where youth mental health services have neu.org.uk been decimated. The NEU is with you as we navigate our facebook.com/ way through uncertain nationaleducationunion times ahead. twitter.com/NEUnion Mary Bousted National Education Union To advertise contact: Joint general secretary Leanne Rowley, Century One Publishing, Alban Row, 27-31 Verulam Road, St Albans AL3 4DG t: 01727 739 183 e: [email protected] Except where the NEU has formally negotiated agreements with companies as part of its services to members, inclusion of an advertisement in Educate does not imply any form of recommendation. While every effort is made to ensure the reliability of advertisers, the NEU cannot accept any liability for the quality of goods or services offered. Educate is printed by Walstead Southernprint Ltd. Inside pages are printed on paper comprised of 100% recycled, post-consumer waste. educate Your magazine from the National Education Union (NEU) 3 Oxford Cambridge and RSA The rest is history February 1990 Contents On 2 February, South African President FW de Klerk took the first step towards dismantling apartheid by lifting a 30-year ban on the African National Congress (ANC). It followed years of protests in South Africa and mounting international criticism. Nine days later, Nelson Mandela was released from jail. In 1994 the ANC won South Africa’s first democratic election and Mandela became its first Black president. Features Regulars 15 Bigger picture 30 19 Union people 21 Michael Rosen 29 Polly Donnison & Warwick Mansell 33 A class act “It’s 36 International tough but 38 Reviews massively rewarding.” 40 Teacher’s pet & letters 45 Noticeboard p30-32 47 Recipe & photo op 22 ‘Shameful secret’ 48 Quick & prize crosswords The little-told story of the 300,000 children with a parent in prison. 50 Final word 26 My battle to save my daughter’s life A teacher and mother’s six-year struggle to access treatment for her anorexic daughter. News 30 From the heart 6 General election How Wales’ first “trauma-informed” How the NEU mobilised for school supports its teachers education – and what the poll and students. 26 result means. 12 Academies Moulsecoomb staff and parents keep up the fight 22 against forced academisation. 13 Sixth form strikes Children affected by NEU members in the cash- parental starved sector ramp up imprisonment are at their campaign. risk of… 16 Conference news Reports from the NEU’s Black educators (left), Wales, LGBT+ educators and independent 16 sector conferences. educate Your magazine from the National Education Union (NEU) 5 General Election update Winners and losers n NIA Griffith, an NEU member and Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, Thanks to our members, education is high on political agenda was re-elected as MP for Llanelli. n Emma Hardy, a former teacher who NEU members and supporters once worked for the NUT, was re-elected responded in their thousands to our in Hull West and Hessle despite a strong #ValueEducation #VoteEducation Conservative challenge. campaign to push education to the n Two Conservative candidates who top of the political agenda during the signed the School Cuts pledge to work run-up to the General Election. to restore school funding were elected – Philip Davies in Shipley and Derek The union isn’t politically affiliated and doesn’t Thomas in St Ives. call for votes for any particular party – but we n Commiserations to NEU members know many of our members will be bitterly who lost their seats, Thelma Walker, disappointed by the result. Vernon Coaker and Nic Dakin – all of Nonetheless, we believe we ran a truly whom have been supportive of the NEU fantastic campaign, with 25,000 members during their time in Parliament. volunteering (see opposite) and many of Thelma, former MP for Colne Valley, them giving up hours of their time to support was a member of the Education Select candidates who made education a priority. Committee since 2017. As a former head The next few years will present big teacher, she was a strong advocate for Sincere thanks to our campaigners challenges – but the National Education education on the committee and in the In what was easily the highest profile union Union will rise to them. House of Commons. campaign, we forced education much higher Vernon had been the MP for up the political agenda to third overall, after Just 1% of Tory PPCs took our pledge Gedling, Nottinghamshire, since the ever present Brexit and the NHS. The Tories did not win the election on 1997 and served as Schools Minister This is good for us in our future education. Only one per cent of Conservative during the last Labour government. work. The growth of our profile and prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) He maintained his membership of the name recognition is also important to took the School Cuts pledge to end funding union throughout this time. our recruitment. cuts and invest in schools, compared to 79 per Nic had been the MP for Scunthorpe We want to thank all our members cent of Labour; 50 per cent of Green; and since 2010 and as a former sixth form involved in that campaign. You contributed 45 per cent of Lib Dem PPCs. college principal he was a champion in in so many ways and we are proud of you and The Conservatives’ Parliament for post-16 education. of the work you did. school funding pledges value Student votes challenge education national trend WHERE students did turn out in large VOTE education numbers on election day, it tended to work against Conservative challengers in marginal seats. Huge numbers of students in Kent queued in the rain to vote, forcing Canterbury Council to draft in extra polling station staff. Labour MP Rosie Duffield, who became the first ever Labour MP for Canterbury in 2017, increased her majority from 187 to 1,836 – bucking the national trend. In Sheffield students also voted in large numbers and Labour MP Olivia Blake held her seat. Students’ Union president Jake Verity said it had developed a student manifesto focusing on issues such as the cost of living for students. NEU Super Saturday campaigners in Kensington and Chelsea 6 educate Your magazine from the National Education Union (NEU) Child poverty A poll of parents carried out by the NEU before the election found 78 per cent believed child poverty was an important issue.
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