Received from: NAHT
Merged into composite 14
The last government deliberately eroded the relationship between schools and families by transferring their ineptitude and the effects of austerity on to schools.
In public pronouncements made in the media and in the House of Commons, families were encouraged to complain about schools rather than work with them.
As a consequence, the unspoken contract between home and school has broken in many places. This has seen a rise in the lack of support from home in maintaining discipline and a rise in the incidents of abuse against teachers, leaders and school staff.
With a broken complaints and teacher regulation system in place schools are unable to defend members from blatant abuse.
There is no excuse for such abuse and it has to stop.
Congress instructs the General Council to campaign for the protection of school staff from such abuse, alongside campaigns to protect other public sector workers.
National Association of Head Teachers