{"id":12294,"date":"2017-05-05T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=12294"},"modified":"2017-05-05T16:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:02:32","slug":"12294-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=12294","title":{"rendered":"Warning fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>An academy chain with schools in the East Midlands and Yorkshire &amp; Humberside is facing possible action from eight education unions over plans to axe support staff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The unions \u00e2\u20ac\u201c representing head teachers, teachers, teaching assistants and school support staff \u00e2\u20ac\u201c have issued the David Ross Education Trust (DRET) with a final warning after a failure to agree over proposed cuts. Talks will now take place at conciliation service Acas.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The chain is proposing to cut nearly \u00c2\u01411m in funding from school budgets and up to 40 jobs from across its 32 primary and secondary schools.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In an unprecedented move, the eight unions have written to DRET\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s founder David Ross urging him to put planned cuts on hold. The changes come just as the trust is increasing charges to schools for services such as payroll and IT.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A survey of employees across the academy chain suggests staff believe the proposed redundancies will damage the smooth running of schools, and harm pupils\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With fewer staff like caretakers, receptionists and administrative staff on hand to deal with problems, teaching assistants would be regularly called out of the classroom, say unions, which would be hugely disruptive to lessons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unite national officer Fiona Farmer said, \u00e2\u20ac\u015bUnite condemns the action of DRET in the strongest possible terms and urges its founder David Ross\u00c2\u00a0to put these disruptive proposals \u00e2\u20ac\u0098on hold\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 so that constructive talks can be held with the unions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u015bAcademies were \u00e2\u20ac\u0098sold\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to parents as beacons of educational excellence, but the latest development threatens the quality of children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s education at this trust, as well as our members\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 employment. DRET\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reputation is being tarnished.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An academy chain with schools in the East Midlands and Yorkshire &amp; Humberside is facing possible action from eight education unions over plans to axe support staff. &nbsp; The unions \u00e2\u20ac\u201c representing head teachers, teachers, teaching assistants and school support staff \u00e2\u20ac\u201c have issued the David Ross Education Trust (DRET) with a final warning after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[34,135,733],"wps_subtitle":"Academy chain warned over cutbacks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12294"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12297,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294\/revisions\/12297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}