New UK teachers' union chief: 'Institutional racism in schools has got to be addressed'

As a black schoolboy in 70s Walsall, Patrick Roach, head of the NASUWT, knew all about racism. Not enough has changed, he says

As the son of immigrant workers new to the UK, and growing up in the West Midlands, Patrick Roach never imagined he would one day be a trade union leader on first-name terms with government ministers.

His parents, however, who arrived from Jamaica in the 1960s, believed in the power of education to change lives and were ambitious for him.

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