The two largest teaching unions, the NUT and the NASUWT, have confirmed that a rolling program of regional strikes is planned to take place across the country in the autumn over national disputes around pay, pensions and working conditions.
Unless agreement is reached, strike action will take place in the Eastern, Midlands, Yorkshire and Humberside regions on Tuesday 1 October. This is highly likely to cause disruption in schools across Hertfordshire.
Justin Donovan, Director of Education, said: “The best way for parents to find out about closures is by contacting their children’s schools directly. While we will publicise the dates of impending strike action in advance on www.hertsdirect.org, together with contact details for the county’s schools, schools are not obliged to tell us about closures, so we cannot give an entirely accurate picture of which schools are closing.”