Union votes to oppose forced academisation reforms
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) will consider taking industrial action to challenge the government’s plans to turn all schools into academies
Mary Bousted, general secretary of the moderate ATL teaching union, told delegates the "fight" against all-out academisation can be won.
She spoke just hours before her union unanimously carried an emergency motion to work with other unions "to defend the public service ethos of the profession" and oppose forced academisation.
