Education and children’s services
Prospect’s Education and Children’s Services (ECS) group represents nearly 3,000 professionals in the education, children’s services, early help, commissioning and children’s social care field.
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
A meeting of our GEC
of employment law and issues arising from public sector reforms.
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 here.
Education Eye Newsletter
We send a digital newsletter with the latest news, information and resources to our members in Education and Children’s Services four times a year. The latest issue is available here: Education Eye, May 2022.
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
