Motion no: 19
Conference
(i) notes with concern the growing number of assaults, both physical and verbal, by parents and pupils on teachers and other education workers which go unreported in schools.
(ii) further notes the zero tolerance approach to assaults on workers in other public service workplaces.
(iii) calls on NIC to work with those unions involved in the education sector and the employing authorities, to establish a zero tolerance policy on assaults in schools to protect all workers in educational establishments.