There are some excellent deals currently for newly qualified teachers.

Check out the union website www.teachers.org.uk

Contact your local Area Representative  Pete Bevis at the Barnsley NUT regional office  for further advice on any matter relating to your future career in teaching.

In-service NUT membership

The NUT will support you into your first classroom and beyond. In-service membership of the NUT guarantees that you will have high quality support and information in your new post. New teachers are offered training courses, advice and information.

Should things go wrong, the most comprehensive network of experienced casework officers and legal staff of any teachers' organisation is available to support NUT members.

Working for you

The NUT campaigns on the issues which affect you as a teacher. The NUT: influences government in setting national and local policies campaigns for better salaries, pensions and conditions of service works for a healthy and safer working environment promotes equality in the workplace raises the status of teachers campaigns for better training.


You can be confident as a member of the NUT.

On behalf of Barnsley NUT we would like to welcome all of you to the new school term. If you are new to teaching, welcome to what should be the best job in the world. If you are new to Barnsley welcome to an area with a very strong and growing NUT branch. And if you have been in Barnsley  and the NUT for some time welcome back.
Every year we are contacted by NQTs with problems which could have been resolved better if we had known about them earlier. Many of them would not even arise if the members concerned had known their rights. This 'potted help page' should help NQT members survive and equip school reps and other members to support NQTs and ensure that they have a successful induction year: 

 ·   NQTs must be assigned an induction tutor- this is required by DfES circular 'The  Induction Period for NQTs.' 

 ·   The Headteacher must ensure that all teachers serving induction do not teach for more than 90% of the time allocated to other classroom teachers without responsibility payments. 
 
·    In addition to this they are entitled to 10% PPA time in line with all other teachers.  

·     The local authority is required to have a named individual with whom NQTs can raise concerns about their induction. Schools should make NQTs aware of contact details for that person. 

 ·     All NQTs should be on permanent contracts unless there is a specific and justifiable reason for a temporary contract, eg cover for maternity, long-term sickness, secondment. If you are on a temporary contract, ask for the reason and if not happy with the reason given, contact the NUT. 

 ·     All NQTs are entitled to a reasonable job description which does not demand teaching outside the age range and subjects for which they are trained and does not present them on a day-to-day basis with acute or demanding discipline problems.

  There is much more advice and guidance available from the local office and on the NUT website www.teachers.org.uk.
Contact us at any point in the year or simply turn up at any of the general members meetings which take place at Longcar PDC.