A strike over academisation plans at the country’s largest federation has been called off after the schools made new concessions, including vowing to allow a councillor to sit on its new board.
Staff from the Leathersellers’ Federation of Schools, which educates 3,000 pupils in Lewisham, have taken 12 days of strike action so far this year. Nine more days were also planned.
Former schools minister Lord Knight, whose daughter attends one of the schools, said: “The impact on children of these strikes is catastrophic.”
But the strike was called off on Friday after an agreement was reached between the federation, the National Education Union and GMB union.
The federation’s three all-through schools will now become a multi-academy trust in January.
