TA strike set to close one school in three

Up to a third of primary schools are expected to close today and tomorrow as teaching assistants take strike action over pay.
Altogether 600,000 local government workers will join the strike over a bel0w-inflation pay offer.
Most teaching assistants are paid for term time only, on an hourly rate. The average full time TA gets the equivalent of about £58 a day for each day they work.
Local government employers have offered a 2.45% increase, claiming they can't afford more.
But unions say they have £11 billion in reserve which they could use to fund a fairer increase.
Schools too have reserves of about £6 billion which the unions say could be used to improve pay for their support staff.