Education and children’s services
Prospect’s Education and Children’s Services (ECS) group represents professionals in the education, children’s services, early help, commissioning and children’s social care field, and provides strength of belonging to a union of more than 157,000 members.
They are based throughout GB and NI, and work across a range of sectors serving the interests of children and young people, including the public, private, faith, voluntary and community sectors.
Our members have exclusive access to specialist advice and support on salaries, contracts, conditions of service, workloads, pensions and other work-related issues.
We have a team of full time officers – highly trained specialists with an in-depth knowledge of employment law and issues arising from public sector reforms.
A meeting of our GEC
Our Group Executive Council (GEC) meets regularly to set policies and priorities and is made of members working across GB & NI in employment and independent consultants.
On a wider level, Prospect proactively lobbies government on key issues related to the work of professionals in education and children’s services.
Self-Employed Professionals
We also have a dedicated online hub for self-employed professionals working in our Education and Children’s Services sector. Find out more about our support for self-employed workers.
Who we represent
- Advisory headteachers
- Directors and managers of children’s services
- School improvement and early years advisers
- Education welfare officers
- Youth and community service officers
- Early years professionals
- 14-19 coordinators
- Heads of Sure Start
- Ofsted inspectors
- Parent partnership staff
- Self-employed consultants
- Early help specialists
- Commissioning staff
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