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The Welsh government and unions met yesterday but no deal was reached – and no further meetings are planned ahead of teacher walkouts next week

Leaders advised they have no legal obligation to respond to a government email requesting information about school closures as teachers walk out next week

Teaching unions call for 12 per cent pay award and say Northern Ireland’s Department of Education ‘needs to wake up’

Support staff should not provide cover supervision for teachers on strike, says union, despite DfE guidance saying this is acceptable

However, NAHT general secretary Paul Whiteman said he does not know ‘when that will be’ and the union ‘will wait to see how much progress is made first’

But heads’ union says there should be no Ofsted school inspections at all during weeks in which there are strikes

SSTA union accuses the government and local authorities of ‘inaction’ as teachers continue to wait for a breakthrough in pay dispute, months after their previous offer

Teaching union announces more strike dates after no new pay offer is made, nearly two months after historic national teacher strike

Schools minister says the government is willing to negotiate but warns against ‘inflation-busting’ teacher pay settlements

Leaders have said they will ‘do all we can to keep schools open’ but DfE guidance is ‘practically unworkable’ and some strike day closures are ‘inevitable’

Sam Freedman explains why the move to strike action is the logical result of a sector stretched to almost breaking point – which may lead to drastic actions by a government seemingly unwilling to budge

NAHT issues legal advice to members including what to do if non-NEU member staff don’t want to cross picket lines and the use of volunteers to cover lessons