​Put Students First: Build Inclusive Learning Support NOT cut

I work in ALS and we are already understaffed and have a huge workload.

LSA already stretched - cutting staff will be disasterous

LAS & ALS support is integral to the student achievement. Reducing staff numbers will have negative impact of students' learning experience and attainment.

Shocked that the wonderfully brilliant LSAs will be devalued and will lose out if this goes ahead. They do an amazing job and should be rewarded rather than punished with the nrw contracts. The ALS role has been watered down and support in my case was secondary. The main part of my role was doing exam access arrangements and far less time spent with students. This restructure has been their plan for a while now.

Our ALS staff has been already stretched with the workload. If this goes ahead it will have a devastating impact on both our ALS staff and our student who deserve better.

ALS is essential for supporting our students, in fact, more ALS staff ids needed. The most vulnerable ones will suffer. Students deserve better!

ALS is crucial for supporting our learners. Having the staff to support them is extremely important. These proposals goes against this, therefore I am against these proposals.

We need more ALS and teachers. Hence, I am strongly opposed to the proposed cuts.

My view is that the proposed restructuring of ALS will have a disastrous impact on the support for vulnerable young people.

Making cuts to the ALS department will disadvantage the most vulnerable students in our college. We need more staff to support students not less!

When will all this madness stop.

Needs of students are getting greater. We don't have enough ILTs now. The needs of our students are important to us.

ill-timed and ill-judged. Our students deserve better. The dedicated staff that support them face being stripped of hours and pay. The proposal does little to address the need for greater investment in ALS and LSA support.

I am one of the 20 that may be made redundnant however, it seems that the college is targeting Unison representatives and yet there is a temporary staff ready to take over my job

If this is about saving money, surely the amount involved is not that significant is it? If it's about some supposed improvement in efficiency/productivity how could that work? Vulnerable people having support withdrawn is not progressive.

Not a wise move. This will have a massive knock on effect for students and teachers trying our best to deliver quality lessons. Young people need more support not less right now....

We shall all be affected if these cuts go ahead.

The ALS service is already stretched with the level of staff we have now. If it is reduced it will have a major impact on the learning experience.

Support works and it works very well. This is taking away a life line for students that need it. Leave it alone!

A rankly appalling decision that punishes those most in need. Teachers of course will be blamed for the resulting drop in retention and achievement