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Teachers: PM can’t ignore child poverty crisis
Union says ‘warm words’ have done nothing for poor kids as Labour urges rethink on post-Covid school strategy
A person wearing a Boris Johnson paper mache mask takes part in a protest outside the Department for Education
by Matt Trinder
Industrial reporter
THOUSANDS of teachers have urged the PM to take urgent action on child poverty, in a major survey showing serious discontent with the Tories’ education strategy.
Before the start of its online annual conference today, the National Education Union (NEU) canvassed more than 10,000 school staff for its State of Education survey.
Union leaders said the results send a clear message that “the historic faults of the education system” must now be righted, while Labour urged the Tories to drop their “half-baked ideas” for the sector’s Covid-19 recovery.
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