I teach in 3rd level education. The organisation I work in isn’t great . I have worked there 20 years as it suited geographically and fitted in well with my home/ family life. I have had a rocky relationship with my manager going back a couple of years. I feel they have been unfair and not treated me equitably in comparison with every other member of my faculty. They have made what I consider sexist and ageist remarks in conversations about this. I have little to do with them on a daily basis but nearly every conversation with them has been difficult/ heated. They have also put me a very difficult situation to sign off on things I wasn’t happy with. They continually make remarks about me needing to upskill ( I teach a wide variety of subjects as my timetable tends to be chopped and changed every year - they then claim I have no area of specialism) - which I’m more than happy to do. Students have always achieved good results, I was told there was a generous budget for training annd directed to find training courses. I found appropriate training which they said was suitable, I completed the appropriate forms for approval and they said they had approved it. Recently I got notification that it had been approved by the appropriate dept. I mentioned this to the manager and within half an hour later I got another notication from the relevant dept to say there had been a technical error and it wasn’t approved and not to proceed. The email stated I could view the reasons for it not been approved but there was none there. I was told to raise it with my manager/HOD. My manager told me in An email that it had been blocked at senior management level and that they and the HOD was trying to persuade them otherwise. I suspected this wasn’t true. I bumped into the Senior Manager who they said had blocked it and they told me that they hadn’t blocked it. I had approached my union last year. The rep was very supportive and spoke to them on my behalf. Unfortunately the rep left last summer and I don’t feel the current reps will be much use, one has no experience and the other is friendly with my manager. I cannot see that the relationship can be repaired and I’m constantly looking over my shoulder which is having an impact on my physical and mental health. I have a youngish family and a self employed partner so I can’t not work. Has anyone any advice please? Thank you