The Employment Rights Bill will bring back the School Support Staff Negotiating Body. Mike Short considers what must be on the new body’s to-do list
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Alongside a raft of changes to workers’ rights, the new government’s Employment Rights Bill (2024) contains provision to reinstate the School Support Staff Negotiating Body (SSSNB).

At UNISON, we have been pushing for this to happen ever since the last government ditched the SSSNB in a high-profile snub to teaching assistants, premises staff, lunchtime workers and all of the other support staff who work alongside teachers and leaders to ensure children get the education they deserve in a positive, safe environment. This was 14 years ago.

Our members in schools had got used to being disregarded by the government, while the realities of their working lives have got ever bleaker.

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