The online petition has been started by Cherryl Drabble, a teacher working in a special educational needs school, in reaction to speculation that the Government is considering removing the role of teaching assistants.
‘Say no to the removal of teaching assistants’, calls for the Secretary of State for Education not to "slash schools" budgets and force the removal of teaching assistants (TAs).
Newspaper reports at the beginning of the month suggested that cuts to the Department for Education's budget could lead to a loss of some of the country’s around 232,000 classroom assistants in an attempt to save £4 billion a year.
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