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[Mencap @mencap_charity]

Faithful to the end #AlexanderDragonetti. Thank you to everyone who has donated to Mencap after hearing Alexander’s story.

Your support will enable us to break down the barriers people with a learning disability face every day 🙏🏻

These donations are needed now more than ever.

[Georgia @GeoorgieeG]

@bo66ie29 Bring back giving credit to the homeowner and original creator https://t.co/V858avBQeU

[Tom Rogers @RogersHistory]

TES staff wellbeing survey 2024…

[RareBirdAlertUK @RareBirdAlertUK]

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[Edmund Barnett-Ward @Edmund_B_W]

Ruth Perry Inquest Day One
The first day of witness evidence has produced some devastating testimony. I will do my best to give you a sense of the day. Apologies for the length of this thread. There is a lot to get through and honestly, too much for this platform…

[National Education Union @NEUnion]

Schools shouldn't be expected to fund pay rises from their budgets. They must be fully funded.

We will be striking on Tues, 2 May.

Get strike ready here👉 https://t.co/3PKvqLb5LM

@GillianKeegan, there's still time to come back to the table with a better offer. #SaveOurSchools

[Sky News @SkyNews]

ASCL General Sec, @RealGeoffBarton on teachers' strikes: 'We went into those talks in good faith, they were bizarre and surreal in many times, but we did not play the union barons and we gave an absolute evidence based case.'

https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3

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[National Education Union @NEUnion]

The @educationgovuk has published its much-delayed Working Lives of Teachers and Leaders survey.

“It is disappointing but also telling that the Department for Education has kept the results of this survey under wraps for so long” - @cyclingkev

🧵Below are its findings 👇

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

There’s a very special bird which is in trouble and you can help . It will cost you two minutes between bites of chocolate . . . please sign here https://t.co/ure3wpLV9I

[Geoff and Margaret @RetirementTales]

"Children have already suffered more disruption to their education than any generation that's gone before..." says Gillian Keegan, the tenth Education Secretary in nine years.

[Mike Taylor @mikebwtaylor]

I asked ChatGP to describe the job of a teacher in the words of Philomena Cunk:

[Kevin Courtney @cyclingkev]

and the winner is…

[Georgia @GeoorgieeG]

Tories patting themselves on the back for decimating already struggling school budgets with a forced, below-inflation pay rise without additional funding after years of pay freezes. Sounds about right 🙄 at least schools have saved some money on the heating bills today!

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

PM Rishi Sunak says children "deserve to be in school, being taught"

Asked if he will negotiate, he replies that teachers have been given "highest pay rise in 30 years"

[Georgia @GeoorgieeG]

@thishappens_pod @BBCNews This strike is for a “fully-funded” pay rise as the 5% increase earlier this year was forced out of existing school budgets. Teachers had no say in this and do not want their salary increases to come out of the children’s pocket. We need fairer funding to help children and staff.

[Georgia @GeoorgieeG]

@billy_knight @UKLabour Billy, I ask this with genuine curiosity, can you give me 3 concrete examples of things that you 100% believe would be worse with Labour than they are with the current government?

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Huw Merriman, the Tory rail minister, admitted today that the govt has spent more money fighting railway workers than it would have cost to settle the dispute.

[Jono Read @jonoread]

Best thing you'll hear all weekend

[Georgia @GeoorgieeG]

Tories x

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Why is the UK struggling more than any other big country? https://t.co/rwEYCiKJoI

[Katie Littlejohns @KatielittleJ]

@RakieAyola hi, my little boy is deaf. I’m campaigning for free BSL courses for parents of deaf children. No parent should have to pay to communicate with their child. Please can you retweet my petition? Thank you 😊 https://t.co/NPTsoh9Yrx