Karen Flanagan is the Head of Special Education and Inclusive Intervention Services in the London Borough of Camden, and is also a Prospect member who sits on the Education and Children’s Services Group Executive Council. She talks to Boc Ly about her career, the impact of the pandemic and her belief in unions.

Conversions of local authority schools to academies are continuing despite Covid, amid some intense local controversies, writes education journalist Warwick Mansell.

Prospect negotiators for the education and children's services group give their updates from the last month.

Over the summer and into the autumn Prospect’s Education and Children’s Services Group has continued to meet with the Department for Education (DfE), writes national secretary, Steve Thomas.

Prospect’s ECSG has submitted its response to the Department for Education’s consultation on changes to the school admissions code.