Anita Wynne of BestStart HR ran an open forum to answer your HR-related questions on Friday 27 March. The questions were mostly Covid-19 related, with a few other staff-related headaches.

A short live online session exploring what we are doing and what is possible via Zoom to help the ELT sector respond to the Covid-19 crisis.

To ensure the safety and wellbeing of our community, we continue to review our planned events and make the appropriate arrangements to follow expert guidance and reduce risk while delivering services as far as possible.

English UK is strongly recommending that all UK English language teaching centres should close in line with publicly funded education institutions.

The Coronovirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS), announced in the government's Budget 2020 on Wednesday 11 March, provides a potential source of loan funding (plus some other financing options) that English UK members may wish to consider