Daughter facing redundancy!! - advice please

Thank you for all your comments, advise and pointers all very useful. She is in a Union and has a meeting next week. Luckily she has her children today until Tuesday so won't have too much time to fret.

Is she in a union, GMB are good and you're covered immediately if you join online. There are horrendous cuts taking place across our schools, truly horrible.

Ask your DD to use the benefit calculator on you.govuk this will help her understand what help is available. Whilst she is looking for a job she will get housing benefit.Please dont panic

She should join a union if she isn't already in one- maybe Unison ?and ask them for advice.

Katy, I don't have any advice to offer just hope that your daughter and the children have better luck very very soon. Different situation but my DD1's partner lost his job last month. They have two young children and he is the only breadwinner as DD is doing a nursing degree. He starts a new job on Monday, very stressful time though.

Your DD probably feels really stressed at the moment but presumably she will be entitled to benefits to get over her period of unemployment whilst she looks for a new job. Although it doesn't feel like it at the moment, this might be a forced change which could place her in a better position in the long run. When my DS was suddenly made redundant, he joined an agency to get work and he got taken on full time after a year. Within a very short time, he got promotion and has found himself in a far better position than he was when he was made redundant.

If you have a look ta the ACAS website there is all the up to date information you need on redundancy rights and entitlements. I do hope this doesn't happen to your daughter but I know the stress hanging over you is horrible. Best wishes.

If the school is an academy, there won't be any help from the local authority. The first thing your DD needs to do is look at her contract and find out how much redundancy pay she will receive. I can't remember exactly what the statutory minimum is. I think (but could be wrong) that it's a week and half's pay for every year she's worked. However, it will depend whether she's been employed on a permanent contract or a series of temporary contracts, which is often the case with non-teaching roles in schools.

The school should have somebody in charge of HR, who should go through the options. However, in my experience, academies don't really know what they're doing with regard to employment matters. Some of them employ external companies to manage HR. Your DD should find out exactly what the situation is and then make an urgent appointment with the CAB.

Is she in a union?

I would advise an appointment with the CAB. An advisor will go through the laws concerning redundancy and any entitlement to benefits.

most public sector employers (used to and probably still) provide redundancy support. she could ask the Head or approach the county council education dept for help.