kevin courtney, thanks forjoining us. squeeze has happened in the past few years? we are in this position where the government is missing teacher recruitment targets year after year, five years where they haven't managed to keep them and it is harder to keep teachers in the job. the number of teachers leaving every year is going up so there is a huge problem with having enough teachers in front of our children. the teachers left are being asked to teachers left are being asked to teach subjects they are not qualified in and that is a problem for the education of our children and we think the government has to work on this urgently, both of the workload which is crazy and is unnecessary, much of it, producing evidence for bureaucrats, not preparing exciting lessons for children, and they also have to work on pay. teacher pay has fallen behind, it doesn't compete with other graduate professions, so young people thinking about coming into the teaching profession will look at the teaching profession will look at the fact that

kevin courtney from the national education union finishing that.by mps has accused some academy school trusts in england of using taxpayers' money to pay "excessive" salaries to senior staff. the public accounts committee says the schools need to be more transparent with their finances. more than two million pupils are educated in nearly 6,000 academies. the government says they operate under a strict system of financial accountability. an imam has been charged with assaulting two boys at a mosque in rochdale. our correspondent fiona trott is following the story for us. greater manchester police have told us that 51—year—old abdul rauf from rochdale has been charged with two assaults against boys aged ten and i2. they are section a7, relating to actual bodily harm. he has also been charged with 19 other assaults against other children. it's understood that these incidents happened at the mosque on crawford street in rochdale over the past year. abdul rauf is due to appear at manchester crown court next month. in the meantime, police are asking anyb

we will be talking to the joint general spoke —— we have been speaking to kevin courtney.the area that should be looking at, which is school standards. and the second is that amanda spielman is suggesting that she knows why muslim girls wear the headscarf and she's suggesting it's because they're being sexualised. and i think for the vast majority of muslim girls who wear the headscarf, they wear it because their sister wears it, they wear it because their mother wears it. it is an expression of their religious faith. we want to live together in this world and that means respecting one another‘s religious faiths. that's the view from the union, but what is ofsted saying in response? we have had a response from the ofsted spokesman who says these comments are disappointed, they say heads need to be able to take uniform decisions on the basis of safeguarding or community cohesion and ofsted will always support them in doing that. this is an interesting debate, a highly sensitive cultural topic and it'll i'io sensitive cultural topic and it'll no doubt be a headline overnight

ahead of its annual conference in brighton, kevin courtney of the national education union, said thathan £1 billion of extra funding has been allocated to schools in england, rising costs meant they still faced tough choices. our education editor, bra nwen jeffreys, reports. they're not the only ones counting carefully. the budget is tight at this primary school. it's in west sussex, an area of low funding. we need to make sure it's the same amount in each quarter. parents paid for the rug in this classroom, part of a wish list set up online by one mum. that was a big shock to myself, when i came to the school and asked them to provide items that they really needed, and they were asking me to put on hand towels, tissues, toilet roll, glue sticks, pencils, exercise books. they have to raise the funds somehow to provide all the children in the next school year with exercise books, and the money's not necessarily there. the online portal has raised £5,000 in a month, notjust from parents but from the local community too. schools can only ask parents for voluntary contributions. it's mean

ahead of its annual conference in brighton, kevin courtney of the national education union, said thatools in england, rising costs meant they still faced tough choices. 0ur education editor bra nwen jeffreys reports. they're not the only ones counting carefully. the budget is tight at this primary school. not enough teachers are training, too many are leaving. teachers‘ unions say a pay rise would help. they want the government, not schools, to find more money. labour's leader has again said his party must do better at dealing with anti—semitism. in a message to mark passover, jeremy corbyn tried to reassure the jewish community that labour would "never be complacent" about the issue. it comes as 44 labour mps called on mr corbyn to suspend a senior official over her handling of a complaint about anti—semitism. 0ur political correspondent iain watson had more details. a key political ally resigned as chairman of the disputes panel, effectively for questioning the suspension. she said she apologised and had not looked at the evidence but ina and had not looked at the evidence but in a

speaking at the national education union's annual conference in brighton, general secretary kevin courtney stop pupils wearing the muslim headscarf. our education correspondent, marc ashdown, is in brighton. explain what more has been said here. it seems it's been a big topic of discussion. it has, and the row started small. it was a single primary school in east london, st stephens, where the headteacher at the start of the year, for her own reasons, decided she wanted to ban young girls as young as eight from wearing a hijab, the headscarf muslim girls usually wear when they reach puberty for cultural and religious regions. that prompted a furious backlash from some parents and factions of the community, and eventually she backed down and overturned the ban. in an unusual move, the chief inspector of schools, amanda spielman, intervened, warning in a major speech of the dangers of those who use religion to actively preferred education. she said it should be up to every school if they wanted to impose such a ban. she called on all leaders to use muscular liberalism to defend themselves. t

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