It comes after the union called for Ofsted inspections to be paused following the death of headteacher, Ruth Perry, who took her own life after her school was downgraded by Ofsted from outstanding to inadequate.
A group of teachers and heads will assemble in Parliament Green on Midday today (Thursday 23 March), where they will be joined by spokespeople from the NEU, including deputy general secretary Niamh Sweeney. The group will then proceed to Sanctuary Buildings in Westminster to hand over the petition of over 45,000 signatures to the Department for Education (DfE).
The petition, which was launched before the death of Perry, calls on the Government to:
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