It has been an honour and a great pleasure to be able to visit members in schools all over Wales this year. Everywhere I go, teachers are as keen as ever to do their best for the pupils. 

Individuals and organisation in the field of equality are invited to attend regular meetings with members of UCAC's equality committee to share experience and practices and to offer guidance. 

 

In our last meeting we had an excellent presentation from Bethan Roberts, the executive manager of MIND Aberystwyth on matters relating to mental health in the education sector. 

UCAC teachers’ union has called for urgent action following the Minister for Education and Skills, Huw Lewis’s announcement today that he will establish a taskforce to look at new options for providing supply teachers to Wales’s schools.

On the day that Estyn published its Annual Report for 2014-15, UCAC teachers’ union has called for urgent action in relation to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and digital competency.

Teaching and school leadership unions join together today in a statement to the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB), warning the Government risks undermining teaching standards due to a real terms reduction in funding and the continued erosion of teachers’ pay.