
Following a meeting with the education secretary Gillian Keegan yesterday (30 January) afternoon, where last-ditch attempts to halt tomorrow’s first walk-out failed, union leaders said that Keegan had ’squandered an opportunity’ to avoid strike action.
The news comes as a new poll of 8,200 teachers, undertaken by daily surveying app, Teacher Tapp on Sunday, suggests that 14 per cent of schools are planning to close to all pupils, while 44 per cent of teachers said their school would close ‘for some pupils’.
London schools are most likely to disrupted, the poll found, with 23 per cent of teachers saying their schools would close for all pupils.
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