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Teach union wins £14.3m in compensation payouts for school workers
Dr Patrick Roach (second right) general secretary of National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT - and NASUWT National Official for Scotland Mike Corbett (third left), with teachers on the picket line outside Wellshot Primary School, in Glasgow, March 1, 2023

TEACHING union the NASUWT has won £14.3 million in compensation payouts for school workers, it said yesterday.

The scale of compensation payouts won for members was revealed ahead of the union’s three-day annual conference in Harrogate over the Easter weekend.

One union member in Wales who suffered injuries and psychological trauma was awarded £150,000 in compensation after a pupil assaulted him.

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