So Nick Gibb Sir Gavin Williamson CBE MP earlier this week you wrote to headteachers threatening legal action if they closed early because everything was fine - today your boss cancelled Christmas because it isn’t - you should hang your heads in shame

The #COVID19 variant is a threat to education. The National Education Union is calling for 3 urgent steps: 💻 Move learning Online for first 2 weeks of Jan 🏥 Public Health to set up mass testing in those weeks 💉 Begin vaccinating education staff youtu.be/YBmG0SPrN5s

All learning in all settings nationwide should be online next week. That is what the science says. The government U turn in London should be extended to all schools and colleges.

We have to stand with school staff and young people & say no to schools reopening on Monday. So many people very anxious about returning with the virus levels so high. None of this is their fault! National Education Union, school staff and children, we are with you! ✊🏻❤️

Just hearing: The Association of Kent Headteachers is pressing Kent County Council to move to all Primaries closed - as in London- rather than some in/others out ...

Important: Thurrock Public Health recommend that schools SHOULD NOT take part in the element of lateral flow testing that is an alternative to isolation - until they get clarifications on safety.

Getting ready for probably the most important national.executive meeting of the NEU I will ever attend. We are in the middle of a public health crisis. This government is failing the people.

We have thousands of reps from all the country on our briefing right now. We must #MakeSchoolsSafe to #ProtectCommunities

1. Education unions need our support today. Everyone wants children in school but with rocketing infection rates it is time for Sir Gavin Williamson CBE MP to do his duty:follow science and close all primary and secondary schools for a few weeks to all but keyworker and vulnerable children.

Today, the National Education Union has taken the difficult decision to advise its members in primary schools that it is unsafe to return to work on Monday. #MakeSchoolsSafe to #ProtectCommunities. Click here for full statement: neu.org.uk/press-releases…

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) called for the Government to move all schools to home learning for a “brief and determined period for most children”, adding that the new strain had created “intolerable risk” to schools,

NEU National Education Union leadership members zoom 12:30 tomorrow, Check your email

A message of solidarity to all members of National Education Union NAHT ASCL NASUWT and all education workers from RMT London Transport Region.

Down in the Tube Station at Midday. Thank you driver. Thank you ASLEF from National Education Union.

Utterly utterly shocking!

Huge victory for #Shrewsbury24. Court of Appeal quashes convictions of pickets arrested during National Building Strike in 1972 - including Ricky Tomlinson. Many congratulations to all of them and to indefatigable campaigner Eileen Turnbull

Sign and share please. An injury to one is an injury to all. Defend our victimised reps. Roger Wilson (chair of Governors Shrewsbury Colleges Group): Overturn Final written warning for John Boken - Sign the Petition! chng.it/6GBZx8PN via Change.org UK

Please sign and share. Roger Wilson (chair of Governors Shrewsbury Colleges Group): Overturn Final written warning for John Boken - Sign the Petition! chng.it/wkFfPNw6 via Change.org UK

Sign to stand in solidarity with a victimised rep. John Boken #edutwitter change.org/p/roger-wilson…

RT if you agree! Westminster Govt must AT LEAST match Scot school measures ✅ Isolation of very close contacts ✅ Masks ✅ Improvements in vaccination ✅ Investment in ventilation ✅ PM to advocate for LFT tests