Balls faces battle with teachers
Updated on 21 March 2010
Schools Secretary Ed Balls is facing a pre-election battle with teachers over plans to make them undergo regular check-ups to ensure they are fit to teach.
Three teaching unions are expected to debate motions at their annual Easter conferences on the controversial "licence to practise".
All three resolutions lobby for the proposals, contained in a Bill currently going through Parliament, to be scrapped - with one calling for industrial action if the plans are passed and it proves necessary.
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