As you will all be aware we have had the budgets for schools now in Wales and I know that in the Vale of Glamorgan the redundancies are coming in at an alarming rate! On March 5th NEU CYMRU arranged an Education union briefing at the National Assembly for Wales about school cuts when many unions ( ASCL, NAHT, NEU and UCAC) took the opportunity to go and speak to AMs about how funding cuts are impacting schools in Wales. I was there representing the NEU with John Owen and Neil Foden from North Wales and Hayley Steel and Lynne Berezanski from Swansea.
We spoke to the following AMs:
Dawn Bowden, Vaughan Gething, Julie Morgan, Eluned Morgan, Andrew RT Davies, Suzy Davies, Jane Hutt, Hefin David. Janet Finch-Saunders, Sian Gwenllian and Lee Waters
I also wrote a letter to my MP Owen Smith asking him to fight for more money for Welsh schools in Westminster but as you can see from his letter above he seems to have little understanding of how dire the situation is!
The NEU has now organised a briefing for Welsh MPs in Westminster next Wednesday, 27th March. MPs will be arriving around 4.15 pm. Jo Stevens will be hosting. I look forward to attending and making sure that Welsh MPs understand the situation and what we need them to do to help Welsh schools.
NEU Executive news for Wales by Mairead Canavan 