Durham councillors approve contract changes for teaching assistants
Durham councillors have approved controversial plans to terminate the contracts of 2,700 teaching assistants and re-employ them on changed conditions.
WATCH: Thousands of Durham Teaching Assistants to have their pay slashed
Thousands of teaching assistants in County Durham will have their pay cut under controversial plans that have been approved by councillors today.
2,700 school staff will have their contracts terminated, and new terms introduced. Durham County Council says it has to make the move to even up inequalities in pay between employees.
But unions say TAs could lose up to £400 a month - and that could have 'devastating' financial consequences for many of them.
Here's our Education Correspondent Tom Sheldrick:
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