PARENTS want teachers to end any industrial action that will directly affect their children’s education, as unions plan to intensify their campaign against pay cuts.

THE group representing parents of primary pupils believes anybody whose handling of child protection issues was questioned in the Murphy report should not continue as school patrons.

MORE than 65,000 teachers and lecturers will take to the picket line in 10 days’ time, leaving the parents of almost 800,000 school pupils needing to arrange childcare on November 24.

THE provision by the state of a year of pre-school education will not cover full-day childcare but the measure was generally welcomed last night.

PARENTS are afraid that supports for children with special needs could be under threat in the next round of Government spending cuts.

PARENTS’ representatives have said they believe State systems have failed if the threat of jail is held over parents who do not send their children to school.

PARENTS have urged researchers and companies not to use schoolchildren to test or market their products.

THE Government must end its piecemeal approach to school transport and make it the responsibility of a single department, parents have warned.

PARENTS have described the Catholic Church’s guidelines as more of a judgment measure than a protection measure for children.

PAID supervision of pupils should be extended before and after school to mind children being dropped off early, according to school managers.

PUPILS must be given a voice in the development of school behaviour policies, Children’s Ombudsman Emily Logan said at the weekend.

MORE than one-in-10 calls to a parents’ helpline are about pupils who say they are being bullied or intimidated by teachers or principals.