Ahead of the #BigMeeting the @NASUWT is hosting a packed meeting with members in Durham with @PatrickR_NASUWT and @AngelaRayner. #Betterdealforteachers 
Patrick Roach said it was vitally important to create a fair and just funding system for education. "There is a big question about funding in schools. There is a lack of joined up services and specialist support for families and children. It has been hollowed out."
He said schools were doing everything they could but had to "always look behind them" over Ofsted, over constant reform and threats of academisation.
Angela Rayner said there needed to be greater respect for teachers: "The lack of respect for the profession is a very dangerous track to go down."
Turning to how the system can treat children with SEN, including her own child, she said: "None of us want to see our children with low self esteem, feeling they are not good enough but that is what this government is doing with their reforms."
Patrick Roach said it was "scandalous" that teacher pay was being held back while academy chain heads were pocketing enormous six-figure salaries.
Angela Rayner added: "It is an audacity to keep teacher pay down...the amount of fraud we are seeing in some academies and free schools is a disgrace."
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