President, conference,
I want to start by thanking you all for attending this week. I would like to thank all the Bournemouth conference centre staff who have looked after us so well, the conference team who pulled this all together, all the NEU staff, our elected Deputy General Secretary, Niamh.
And Conference, what a fantastic President we have had this year in Emma Rose.
Let me say what a privilege it is to stand before you as your General Secretary. The NEU is a great union, and I’m proud to lead it.
What makes our union so great are the activists like you, and the thousands more who aren’t here, who work tirelessly in the interests of their colleagues, children and their communities.
Officers, reps and members who worked so hard to build our recent indicative ballot. The result of which truly shows the level of anger in the profession, at what is happening to education and how this Government treats those who work in our schools and colleges.
