Primary teachers to be balloted on boycotting Sats

Children in England sit tests in reading, writing and maths at the age of 11. Photograph: Echo/Getty Images/Cultura RFPrimary schoolteachers are to be balloted on whether to boycott Sats next year because of concerns that high-stakes testing is harming children’s mental health. Delegates at the National Education Union (NEU) annual conference in Liverpool voted in favour of the action after a heated debate, seeing off an amendment from the executive which had argued that a ballot was not t