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• During a tumultuous party conference season, coming so soon after the mini-budget, had seen Labour’s poll ratings soar and open cabinet warfare for the new PM;
• Packed NEU fringe at Labour Conference for the launch of the Free School Meals campaign which won support from the Labour Conference with an emergency motion;
• The Government’s proposals to take a wrecking ball to workers’ rights and protections could see protections gained under the EU such as TUPE, AWR and WTD scrapped allied to the anti-union/worker legislation tightening the already stringent industrial action legislation
• Each Government department charged with looking a Minimum Service Guarantees in health/education/transport and the fire service – could be a minimum number of teaching hours or guaranteed minimum provision for key workers/vulnerable pupils
• Little of substance from Kit Malthouse’s team; more ‘intervention on standards’; Education Bill likely to be quietly dropped;
• In respect of political engagement, the Union is developing a model education manifesto for the Labour Party and colleagues are meeting regularly with Bridget Phillipson and Stephen Morgan;
• The Union’s funding experts were modelling the working on the impact of the 2021 spending review on schools’ budget position over the next two financial years in preparation for the relaunch of the school cuts campaign as the focus for the next general election campaign;

The Executive also endorsed all Strategy Committee reports from July 2022 and agreed the following:

• the variance report for the financial year 2021-22; total income was lower than budgeted but throughout 2021-22 the surpluses reported have been driven by lower than budgeted levels of expenditure mainly resulting from COVID-19 continuing to have an impact on activity levels for the third financial year running. This has resulted in an overall variance of just under £2.5 million
• Arrangements for the retender of the Union’s external audit services
• Agreed to recommend that if there are vacancies for the NDC/NAC at the point nominations close (on 21 October) then current members (who retired during their current period of office) will be invited to join the Committee on a co-opted basis
• Received a report on the staff pay claim negotiations
• Noted the Property Report and agreed:
•  Provisional approval is given for a budget of £200 per square foot for a property search in the North West.
• Approval is given to proceed with the extension to Elm House in the Eastern region.
• Approval, in principle, to the work being undertaken at Hamilton House to relocate the London Regional Office.
• Agreed that the support contract for Civicase remains with the existing supplier and a new contract with Canon for supply, service and maintenance of all multi-functional devices
• Agreed to donate £1k to Education Media Centre; £1k to Children’s Safety Foundation; £10k to the People’s Assembly and £500 to the York Disabled Workers’ Co-operative
• Testing on the AWR Online Tool would begin on 14^th October and it would be launched shortly after that date;
• Agreed the scope for casework/legal assistance for AWR and other ‘ongoing’ breaches such as discrimination claims;
• Member Defence discussed the defending reps in the workplace Conference resolution and the Executive agreed the wording of a required rule change;
• Leigh Seedhouse was elected to the SCMD Legal Appeals Sub Committee;
• A protocol for General Motions and strategy committee agenda
• That the 2023 Executive Awayday would be held on 8 June
• That national Officers should not chair Strategy Committees and there would be an election to replace Phil Clarke as Chair of SC: B&C; tribute was paid to Mr Clarke for his contributions
• Timings and arrangements for the International Committee

Pay campaign and statutory ballots

The JGSs reported that the turnouts in all three preliminary ballots now exceeded 50% with a final tally of 77% of 6FC members voting with 85% in favour of action.  The issues before the Executive were complex and the stakes were high.  Noted the key points in considering the timings for the ballot were maintaining the momentum in the ballot; capitalising on the political situation and the widespread support for action; aligning the ballot period with NASUWT.  The impact of the postal dispute could not be underestimated; with sealed post boxes, difficulties in provision of duplicate ballot papers and uncertainty on how long the dispute would continue.  The Executive agreed:

• the legal basis for all ballots (6FC, Support Staff and Teachers) would be to demand a fully-funded, above inflation pay rise (as measured by September 2022 RPI);
• Teachers and support staff in England and Wales (four separate ballots): Open ballot as soon as possible and no later than Tuesday 1 November; close ballot on Friday 13 January; first possible day of action week commencing 30 January;
• Sixth Form College teachers: open ballot on Monday 17 October; close ballot on Friday 11 Nov; first possible day of action Tuesday 29 November
• A clear strategy to win the formal ballot based on field activity and member engagement;
• support the networking of ballot volunteers within their workplaces
• Before the launch of the statutory ballot in England and Wales members of the Regional Management Team/Management Team Cymru should meet with Executive members to discuss the turnout in the preliminary ballot focusing on areas of strength and weakness and should use the national strategy to plan how staff and Executive members can best work together to build and sustain momentum over the formal ballot period

A contingency of £800,000 was included in the year’s budget to cover the potential costs of a statutory ballot. When the budget was set in July, we had not finalised the statutory ballot arrangements. It is a fast-moving environment with things changing rapidly.  It was anticipated that some of the VE:VE budget would be used to meet the cost of work towards the indicative/preliminary ballot this term, but the reality is that we will go over.  The Executive agreed that the additional spend was approved subject to a robust scrutiny of the spending to date and the proposed spending; and how that overspend can mitigated to ensure any call on the Union’s Reserves is limited as much as possible.

The Executive agreed two resolutions on the COP27 summit (for referral to SC:PRC) and Procedural Issues (for referral to GPC).

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Pay campaign

• Messaging for local officers to members – teachers’ pay cut by 20% in real terms since 2010; a 3% pay increase (for experienced teachers) set against current inflation rates of 11% equates to 28% reduction to salaries;
• Predicting the pay announcement early next week with 9% for NQT/ECTs and 3% for experienced teachers – with reports in FT that this may be 5% – all under inflation
• Impact on recruitment and retention devastating – with 1 in 8 teachers leaving after their first year and one-third by their fifth year; will increasingly lead to non-specialist teaching/multiple teachers for year groups and compressed timetables
• Working with the other unions to co-ordinate any indicative/consultative ballots; NASUWT have said they’ll ballot after the half term; heads’ unions reporting anger over pay with NAHT due to consult their members and include a question on pay; ASCL considering a survey; Unison and GMB may ballot their support staff when the pay offer known
• Key dates flagged at DBS: national zoom call on 6 September; all branches to hold committee meetings early in September; reps encouraged to hold school group meetings in w/c 19 September

Supply Member strategy

• Development of AWR tool progressing with launch next term – now fine tuning
• Trawl of casework system to look for trends amongst current cases with particular agencies
• Wider work on alternatives to agencies – with the Wales Government, with Jamie Driscoll (N Tyneside Metro Mayor) and across MATs;

The Executive agreed all Strategy Committee reports from the meetings on 9 June 2022 and agreed the following urgent reports and decisions:

• the projected year-end variance report and the overall variance of £2,773,197 due to expenditure being lower than budgeted
• Agreed the budget for 2022/3 with surplus of £231,052 following adjustments to the contribution to the International Reserve for 2022/23 being paid in this financial year; and a 4.5% reduction applied to several budget headings
• Revised Expense Regulations WEF 1.9.22 (compensation for trains/claiming for alcoholic drinks/child-care provision for part-timers/electric cars)
• Appointment of Crowe as the internal audit provider for 3-year contract
• Colleen Johnson was elected to the OSG in place of Emma Rose (SVP elect)
• Update on staff pay claim and costed restructuring of the Communications Section (to reflect increased use of digital comms) and the IT team to provide infrastructure support
• Approval of Staff Complaints Procedure and GS Disciplinary Procedure
• Timetable for the NDC/NAC elections with nominations opening in September and elections held in November
• Funding decisions; re-affiliation to the Bevan Foundation (£375 pa); £2000 to Maternity Action and a further donation of £38,000 to the Redhill Centre (Miners’ Gala) and that the nectar points earned through the Help a Child to Learn campaign are donated to equally to Women’s Aid, The Trussell Trust and the Children’s Literacy Charity
• TUC matters – motions on Opposing the Nationalities and Borders Act and Action on Cost-of-Living Crisis and the nomination of Heather McKenzie to the TUC General Council
• The Pay Reference Group (PRG) to continue to meet regularly to oversee the implementation of the ballot preparation and with the following decisions taken:
• Open on Saturday 24 September and close no later than Friday 14 October.
• A single YES/NO question about the willingness to take discontinuous strike action to secure an inflation-plus pay offer
• Constituency – all teacher members whose pay is determined under the terms of the School Teachers Review Body (England) and the independent Pay Review Body in Wales
• Should UNISON-GMB-UNITE confirm any pay ballot of support staff members then NEU to ballot our support staff members alongside them
• Package of resources and support for branches and reps to get the vote out
•  indicative ballot of sixth form college members on pay opening on 12 September
• Revisions to the Wales Council Constitution with 2/3 officer positions to be women and the vice-chair to be a woman if the chair is male and that this should also be applied to Regional Councils
• the student and trainee recruitment strategy as set out in paper US 7/160722
• To terminate Cornmarket contract and continue to offer member deals via myRewards
• Publicity to supply members launching our new AWR online tool should explicitly link to our pay campaign for inflation-plus pay rises for all education staff and urge supply members to make common cause with balloting colleagues and oppose any use of supply teachers to undermine strike action
• General Motions on Abortion Rights and Strike Map were carried
• A motion arising from the JGS report was carried concerning a tweet relating to a feminist organisation
• Updates to the NEU Disciplinary Procedure to provide guidance on new Rule (App 3 – 3.3a)
• Implementation of the Conference resolution on defending reps with proposed rule change
• The rep must be elected
• Where possible, NDAs should be removed from any settlement agreements

The Executive thanked Daniel Kebede for his work as National President this year. They thanked Robin Bevan, who was attending his last Executive meeting, for all his work as a National Officer.

NEU Cymru was well represented at this year’s fantastic international solidarity conference in London. There were so many excellent workshops that we couldn’t even attend them all but especially informative were the ones on “Resisting the rise of the far right” “Free Palestine” and “Refugees welcome here” which I chaired. International solidarity officers shared details of delegations they have been on and the work that they do in their districts.

It was great to be back in person at Merthyr Rising after 2 years of online rallies and to again be able to meet and network with other trade unionists at such a critical time while we are all building for the TUC cost of living demo on June 18th. The trade union march and rally was well attended by NEU Cymru members on Sunday morning and then I attended a cost of living workshop in the red house where we listened to some very inspirational speakers from a wide spread of unions, Wales TUC and other organisations such as peoples assembly. NEU Cymru had a stall at the event all weekend.

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Education Bill
• Continue to reiterate Union’s successful challenge to the Government’s inaccurate evidence for the White Paper/Bill despite claims to be robustly ‘evidence based’
• EPI/Institute of Education report published this week on ‘stuck schools’ – those with repeat RI Ofsted/Estyn scores over 3 inspection cycles – have striking (but unsurprising) common factors:
o High rates of teacher and pupil turnover
o Based in towns rather than cities
o Higher proportion of pupils with SEN or on FSM
o Repeated lower Ofsted/Estyn grades inevitably damages schools further
o Vicious circle – low staff/student morale/low levels of parental trust/recruitment difficulties
o Staff in ‘stuck schools’ report grave concerns about quality of inspections/inspectors
o No benefit/improved performance on joining MATs – neutral impact
• this report vindicates the Union’s opposition to the premise of the Education Bill – it’s an answer to a question no-one is asking
• Working with other unions to promote amendments to the Bill
• Organising zoom calls with reps in standalone academies/LA schools to reinforce the downside of joining MATs – no way out
• Working with NEU Councillor network to promote the Union’s message
• Planning an event in Parliament with NAHT and ASCL in October when Bill reaches HoC
• Union joining the judicial review by parents at Holland Park (London) of the decision to join ULT – against the wishes of the school community.
Pay
• Building for rally on 18 June; GSS team at Town Hall meetings in Stoke and Sheffield; promotional video posted on website – Executive asked to share the link widely
• Need to counter the arguments – #1: 80% of current inflation down to price increases and not pay inflation; company profits at historically high levels while pay increases historically low; real danger that suppressing wages will create stagflation; #2 Union can and does effect real change and has been fundamental in moving the arguments forward from 2010 – Government rhetoric (at least) against austerity and low wage economy; #3 Collective action lifts spirits and encourages engagement
• Annual data set reveals 1 in 8 teacher trainees leave in their first year of teaching; 36,000 left last year – £4,000 more than the previous year despite lower retirement figures; a quarter of teachers leave in two years and a third within five years
• Mary Bousted to raise the crisis in recruitment with Robin Walker, Schools Minister at the next Programme of Talks
• Intend to write to Nadhim Zahawi after TUC rally to notify that we’re holding an indicative ballot; in touch with PCS and NASUWT about co-ordinating plans
Survey of Women members
• As part of implementation of the 2021 Conference Resolution – defending maternity rights – surveyed 24,000 women (with 1 in 6 response rate); revealed widespread breaches of law including refusal to attend ante-natal appointments during school day; no risk assessments; denial of pay progression
• Some examples of good practice and Union key to ensuring members’ maternity rights observed
• Findings will inform five themed reports: Pregnancy and rights at work; Pregnancy Loss or termination; Pay and financial support; breastfeeding; return to work and flexible working
• Pool of resources to be produced for members/reps and local officers to assist them in member support – key issue for our women members (77%)
• Recent workplace survey (across the whole economy) revealed that 29% of women between 29-34 years not in paid work due to childcare costs; gender pay gap stuck at 15.4% which rises to 30% in retirement

Kevin Courtney and Dawn Taylor part of a delegation to Colombia with JFC observing the official Presidential Election observers – moving and humbling to see the bravery of Colombian people.

The Executive agreed all Strategy Committee reports from the meetings on 7 May 2022 and agreed the following urgent reports and decisions:
• Finance Report – overall positive variance of £2,974,333 due to expenditure being lower than budgeted, although there continued to be an adverse variance in respect of income budget.
• further work on the draft budget for 2022/3 before final sign off in July – agreed no deficit budget and the establishment of a dedicated savings project team
• further information be sought on the extension to the Eastern Regional Office before final decision and retrospective approval for taking up the lease on the Edgworth Suite for the NW Regional Office.
· noted the situation with the central mobile phones contract and the action taken by the IT department to prevent a repetition of similar problems in the future
· Funding requests from Music for Youth for £30,000 sponsorship and £20,000 donation (budgeted year on year), £20,000 for Love Music, Hate Racism towards a float at Notting Hill Carnival, £5,000 to the Conference for the Black Child (organised by Stand up to Racism) and £2,000 to Match Fest
· Draft timetable for the D7 by-election to be published in the e-Bulletin on 10 June with nominations opening on 1 September
• the transfer of both Channel Island districts (Guernsey and Jersey) from the South West to the South East region wef 1 September 2022
• As requested by our network of 6FC reps, prepare to run an indicative ballot on pay in September and determine the final timetable at the July Executive
• contact FE reps offering to run disaggregated indicative college ballots on pay wherever UCU likewise ballots or where NEU has significant membership
• As part of the Conference resolution implementation, to donate Windrush Foundation (£5,000); Seven Stories Windrush programme (£2,500); Positive Action in Housing (£2,500) and Refugee and Migrant Centre (£2,500)
• SC:MD was given a demonstration of the AWR online tool and gave feedback in advance of the launch
• Agreed to move the DBS Briefing to 15 July and send a message of solidarity to RMT

NEU Cymru women’s organising forum members and NEU executive members organised a two-day event to encourage more women members to get active within the union. The overnight event took place place in Llandrindod Wells, Powys on May 20 and 21, it was an introductory weekend for women new to activism and it was wonderful to meet so many new activists from across Wales. The event included speakers, workshops and activities from across England and wales with a focus on Maternity to Menopause and networking. We looked at where we are now and where we would like to be in the future. 79% of NEU Cymru members are women and we have much work to do to ensure that women are equally represented in our local and national structures and meetings. It’s very important to build on this successful event in providing women focussed events in the future especially on International women’s day every year.

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Long Covid

• The Union has led on the joint guidance (with ASCL, NAHT, GMB, Unite, Unison, NASWUT and Voice) to address the fact that education staff top the league when it comes to prevalence of self-reported Long Covid,
• Key features include full pay for a minimum of 12 months regardless of length of service, an undertaking not to impose sanctions as a result of absence monitoring, an undertaking to adhere to GP and occupational health recommendations and paid time off for appointments and treatments.

TUC Rally on 18 June – London

• Key staging post in the pay campaign
• NEU will be part of the education bloc with UCU and NAHT (NAS yet to confirm) and aim to mobilise 25k members to attend; plans for social media/communications to members but engagement at workplace level by reps and branch secretaries will be key
• Although workload still the key concern amongst our members, the cost-of-living crisis and the NI and tax hikes are impacting their views

STRB oral evidence session – 29 April 2022

• President led the delegation which drew upon David Powell’s extensive and detailed written evidence submission
• Cited members’ lived experiences and views
• Called for the idea of a differential pay award to be abandoned
• Expressed serious concerns about the dismantling of the national pay structure driven by the imposition of PRP and citing the late and wholly inadequate equality impact assessment undertaken by the DfE 
• Challenged the STRB to demonstrate its independence and disregard Treasury affordability quotas or school budget reserves and set a pay award that would stem the haemorrhaging of teachers from the profession

OFSTED – Unhappy Birthday demonstration

• Members demonstrated outside all regional offices and delivered thousands of ‘Unhappy Birthday’ cards to the London HQ on 6 May
• The Union’s pithy critiques of the inspectorate are affecting the debate; during a recent interview with Amanda Speilman on the Today Programme, the Union’s criticisms of OFSTED and Estyn were quoted (a toxic shadow/outcomes never independently evaluated);

White and Green Paper

• Expecting elements of the White and Green papers to be included in the Queen’s Speech listing forthcoming legislation due on 10 May
• Draft timetable for the legislation indicates that the Government intends to move the Bill quickly through Parliament with the first stage in the Lords
• Focus will be on amendment/defeating certain aspects of the Bill with the caveat that the Government has a strong majority

The Executive noted the analysis of this year’s State of Education Survey. 

The pay campaign agreed by the National Executive in 2021 and developed by Annual Conference 2022 is the key priority campaign for the NEU going forward, sitting within our broader Value Education Value Educators orientation. Significantly, the union is committed to a ballot in the autumn term in support of our pay claim, should this not be met by government. A key step in the campaign is mobilisation for the TUC demonstration on June 18th, within the context of growing member anger over shrinking real-terms pay and the cost of living crisis.  All Strategy Committees (bar GPC) considered the Conference Resolutions on pay; noted actions already implemented and agreed the next steps in the campaign, including, amongst other activities:

• the data dashboard, planning tool and support resources already briefed out to local officers at Conference and subsequently emailed out to all branch officers
• mobilisation for the TUC demonstration on June 18th, within the context of growing member anger over shrinking real-terms pay and the cost-of-living crisis
• Linking the VE:VE and pay with reps pay survey meetings this term and roll-out to workplace meetings – to include membership record updates
• Produce member-facing materials on the cost of living, alongside materials aimed at connecting with parents
• Convene a group of lay activists, consisting of the Chairs of PRC, Bargaining and Negotiations, and Union Strength to oversee the implementation of this work

The Executive agreed all Strategy Committee reports from the meetings on 31 March (with a small amendment to the SC:MD minutes) and agreed the following urgent  reports and decisions:

• The Finance Report and an internal audit procurement process to go to tender with recommendations to the July meeting of the Executive
• Not to accept the unsolicited offer on Hamilton House
• To amend the Local Finance Regulations (no. 33) to implement the Conference resolution on Honoraria
• To survey (relevant) members on their views on the merger of Monmouthshire, Radnorshire and Breconshire into one district – Powys District
• The Executive Schedule of meetings for 2023
• A timetable for the by-election in D12
• Funding decisions – £12,500 pa over three years to Comprehensive Future; £1,000 to Trade Unions for Energy Democracy and £1,000 to Northern Rocks (to be held on 25 June and at which Mary is a keynote speaker)
• Agreed that the delegation to TUC would include the National Officers, the Union’s representatives on the TUC equality committees and members on the GC by office; in addition, ten members were elected by the Executive as delegates
• General Resolutions on Trans issues and the Nationality and Borders Bill
• Additional delegates to the Labor (sic) Notes event (Abdul Choudhury and Emma Rose) and the election of Georgia Townshend to the AFT/NEU bilateral working group
• To elect Mairead Canavan and Karen Williams to the EI World Women’s Conference
• Clear protocols for the Union’s annual sectional conferences including arrangements for delegate funding

This was the 2nd visit by Welsh NEU members to the Care4Calais warehouse to bring essential items and work in the warehouse and with refugees for the weekend. Thanks to a donation from Wales council we were able to hire a van and take over much needed staples that are difficult to get in Calais. Monetary donations from Pembrokeshire, Denbighshire and Vale of Glamorgan meant that we could fill the van and also have money to go shopping while there and buy the most essential items when we were in Calais.

What a privilege it was not just to give out around 175 sleeping bags to refugees from Sudan, Afghanistan, Gambia and other countries but to show our solidarity by spending hours talking to them, hearing their stories, playing Jenga, chess and connect 4 and watching them thoroughly enjoy having a football to play with. It definitely reminded us all how lucky we are to live in the Uk instead of living in a field for 4 years as some of the young men we talked to had been. #RefugeesWelcome

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Covid

• Free testing and the requirement for twice-weekly testing in SEND provision now ending against the background of high and increasing cases

(In Wales ALN provisions staff still required to test daily)

• In regular discussions with the permanent secretary (at the DfE) with other unions and employer bodies, the Union has led on raising concerns about the impact of staff absence on teaching provision and increased workload pressure for staff in school/college
• The Secretary of State rejected the Union’s call for SATs and league tables to be scrapped, and for a return of regular testing and other mitigations

Child Q

• Regularly in touch with Hackney NEU Branch who are supporting members in the school, who knew nothing about the case, nor the ISB report; most learning that it was their school via social media
• Union engaging with the DFE to urgently update and correct their safeguarding guidelines

White Paper/SEND Green Paper

• Sole focus remains structures/governance with a commitment that all schools to be in a ‘strong trust’ by 2030
• No serious proposals to address the crisis in recruitment and retention of teachers – how to stem the exodus of teachers from the profession (40% leaving within 10 years/a quarter within their first two years) due primarily to workload and lack of agency/professional voice
• White paper mentions ‘workload – where it exists’
• Single most important determinant in pupil outcomes is poverty – both sustained and episodic – on which the WP is silent and which is exacerbated by the Government’s wider policies (cuts to benefits/cuts to CAMHS/nothing to address cost of living crisis)
• Little or nothing on recovery other than an emphasis on individual tutoring – separate welcome removal of Randstad from NTP
• Ken Jones (Head of Education, Equalities and Social Justice) described both Papers as a wasted opportunity for which members would be incredulous rather than inspired

Union’s response – the Government’s flawed case for fully trust-led system

JGSs used part of the Pre-Conference Press Briefing the previous day to release the Union’s damning analysis of the Government’s flawed evidence base published alongside the WP on Monday – widely picked up across the media and infuriating the Secretary of State. The Union’s statistician, Andrew Baisley, had worked on two projects – an analysis of the Government’s evidence and a wider project on Ofsted outcomes.  The DfE responded to argue wrongly that the NEU only featured secondary statistics and then compounded their error by admitting that there was little data for primary because there were very few primary MATs from which they could draw evidence.

The Executive agreed all Strategy Committee reports from the meetings on 5 March (with a small amendment to the SC:MD minutes) and agreed the following urgent decisions:

• agreed proposers/seconders for all Executive motions/amendments
• the following recommendations from the US/BNC working party  
• Hold one further working party meeting to consider supplementary data, identify further examples of best practice, reporting final findings on the key strategic questions to the 7 May US and BNC meetings.
• Finalise VEVE branch development template by Easter and roll out via briefings at Summer Term regional/Wales councils and with dedicated support from regional/Wales officers and organisers, for completion and collaborative review at DBS meeting on 23-24 June.
• Branch development template to include a planning timeline for pay campaign next steps during Summer and Autumn Terms, starting from close of annual conference, including preparation for an indicative national ballot if agreed by annual conference; This next phase of our pay campaign will be launched with a briefing for reps and officers at conference, including a toolkit for each step of activity and for all branch and workplace contexts.
• acknowledging that members are affected by cost increases and a need to meet increasing costs for the Union; agreed an increase to membership subscription rates to 3% for support staff members and 5% for standard and leadership members
• Noted the Finance Report – total income received during the period was £31,607,834 and total expenditure was £25,960,790 creating a surplus of £5,647,044.
• Draft report from the Auditors – small number of outstanding ‘housekeeping issues’
• Funding requests; a donation of £2,000 to the UCU fighting fund; a donation of £250 to the Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival; a donation of £500 towards the sponsorship of the Hazards Conference; and a donation of £37,500 to the EI Ukraine emergency fund
• an Urgent Motion to Annual Conference on Children’s Rights And Police In Schools
• To award the Fred and Anne Jarvis Award to Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE, CEO and Founder of Stemettes 
• Some amendments to the layout of the Union’s membership card