School Support Staff Learning Grants

UNISON's Personal Learning Grant. 

These are only applicable to members employed in schools.

A limited number of awards of up to £300 each are offered towards the cost of course fees. These grants can be used for a wide range of courses: any general non-vocational course (e.g. IT courses, skills training, languages etc.) or any vocational course relevant to working in a school.

Further information is attached

The closing date for applications is 25 September 2017. 

UNISON Welfare School Uniform Grant

UNISON There for You: School Uniform Grant 2017

If you have children in full time education, you may be eligible to receive a school uniform grant from UNISON's charity There for You. To be considered, you must either be:

In receipt of Housing Benefit; or Your net annual income £18,000 or below.

Closing date for application is 21 July 2017.

Further Information is available here 

UNISON Comments on the Queen's Speech

The Queen's Speech has ignored the nation's concerns, says UNISON

Commenting on the Queen's Speech, UNISON general secretary Dave Prentis said: "Ministers are living in a parallel universe. Years of harsh spending cuts have caused huge damage to public services across the country.

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The residential care system is failing the elderly, says UNISON

Elderly and vulnerable people in residential care homes are being left in re-used continence pads, denied trips to the toilet and kept indoors for days on end because of severe staff shortages, according to a survey published by UNISON.

The vast majority (83 per cent) of care workers say they are so rushed they are compromising the dignity and well-being of the people they look after. This is despite many staff (80 per cent) regularly working through their breaks.

The findings are based on survey responses from more than 1,000 care staff working in private and local authority care homes across the UK.

Further information on the survey can be found here