school budget cuts...just been fired! Help

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Posting here for traffic....I've just been told that from September I will no longer have a job. I work part time in a primary school on a fixed term contract until August, this is the second year I have been on a fixed term contract. I've been doing PPA (lesson cover whilst class teachers do planning) and my job is going to be done by a classroom assistant. Can they do this? Is it legal to employ a teacher for 2 years on fixed term contracts and then get rid of them to be replaced by an HLTA? The post will be the same, it's not as if the post will be removed, but it will be done by someone cheaper. Thanks :(

Your contract has finished.

HLTAs job role is to take the class in teacher absense.

I'm also finding that many Lsa on lower pay scale (here it's C/lsa2) are also having take the class in teacher absense added to their job role too.

It's necessary with all the cuts however shut it is.

Schools are also doing this a lot because a lot of hltas are also qualified teachers or nursery staff who want to earn and fit it around raising children or have retired by able to carry on working in their 60's.