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Conference believes that the current General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland is not fit for purpose and should be dissolved. Conference is concerned that teachers are required to pay for registration from a body which is controlled directly by the...

Conference notes: 1) The priority in the Programme for Government to Deliver more affordable childcare; 2)The outcome of the PSEP scoping study; 3) The acknowledgement that childcare needs to become more accessible and affordable for all. Conference calls on...

Conference: a) notes; 1) the decreased SEND implementation funding made available to schools to support the proposed changes to the SEN Framework; 2) the dramatic increase in the establishment of specialist provision classes within mainstream schools (SPiMS)...

Congress has huge concerns about the marked lack of progress on the part of the employers within the education system in addressing the issues pertaining to workers with disabilities. These individuals face daily challenges that are compounded by the absence...

Conference welcomes the recent publication of the Interim Report by the Magee Taskforce which outlines a road map for the expansion of the Ulster University Magee Campus in Derry. After many decades of government inaction and empty promises, this interim...

Conference believes that the coronavirus crisis highlighted the need for the protection of workers income and health through the provision of adequate sick pay provision. In Northern Ireland Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) has been in existence since 1983. However...

This motion calls on ICTU to lead an active campaign to highlight and address the devasting social and economic impact of NHS waiting lists on working people and their families in Northern Ireland. The NI health service's current "critical situation" comes...

Health inequalities requires cross department support but also requires the department to work with trade unions In 2013 the department for health published Making life better a strategic framework for public health. This was a ten-year strategy so it...

Congress notes that more than 95% of people in Northern Ireland live less than one mile from a community pharmacy. Congress notes that this level of accessibility did not drop throughout hardships of recent years. We note the annual estimated spend on GP...

Conference calls for Stormont to adopt an active industry policy for shipbuilding and aerospace sectors As part of Boeing’s acquisition of Spirit Aerosystems, Airbus will buy the formerly Shorts operations in Northern Ireland in its own supply chain; however...