Full list of Staffordshire and Birmingham schools children can't attend as teachers walk out in row with trust over redundancies
Hundreds of pupils in Staffordshire and Birmingham remain at home as teachers employed by a school trust strike for a second day over redundancies.
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) were due to stage three days of industrial action in protest over redundancy plans at the Arthur Terry Learning Partnership based in Sutton Coldfield. The strikes follow efforts by the school to tackle financial issues after it was ordered to make improvements by The Department for Education and Education and the Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) after it failed to balance the books in 2024.
On Thursday the Trust said: “Hundreds of children and young people are again not able to attend school today because of the ongoing NEU-organised strikes. This is deeply regrettable, with pupils missing vital days in school and parents hugely inconvenienced.
"To ensure pupils not able to go to school can continue their education, high-quality remote learning has again been arranged. We are doing all we can to resolve the dispute as swiftly as possible and continue to seek constructive talks with the NEU.”
The teachers' action is at at 20 of the trust's 24 schools across the West Midlands region .
NEU national executive member Chris Denson said: "Members are really concerned for the students that they teach. Any cuts should come from the massive central office spend, not from teachers and support staff who do so much for the children that they support day in day out.
“Members are deeply concerned about the potential impact on support for children, for special education needs support, for the impact on class sizes, not to mention the loss of jobs for members and their colleagues.
“The trust needs to drastically rethink their plans. Cutting pupil-facing roles will always damage education, wherever it happens. The massive central spend and central structure need to be cut, not support for students and their teachers and support staff jobs.”
