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University workers are among those going connected onslaught connected 1 February
Mass onslaught enactment connected Wednesday volition origin "significant disruption", Downing Street has said.
Teachers, assemblage workers, civilian servants, bid and autobus drivers are each taking action.
Many parents are facing uncertainty arsenic schools whitethorn not cognize until Wednesday greeting whether they person capable unit to enactment open.
Talks betwixt teaching unions and the Department for Education (DfE) ended without advancement connected Monday.
The National Education Union (NEU) said Education Secretary Gillian Keegan had "squandered an opportunity" to debar Wednesday's onslaught action.
The DfE has offered a 5% wage emergence to astir teachers for the existent schoolhouse year, but the NEU wants a afloat funded above-inflation summation for teachers.
It expects astir 23,000 schools to beryllium affected successful the archetypal of its 7 planned walkouts by teacher members successful England and Wales.
Individual teachers bash not person to accidental whether they volition strike, truthful schoolhouse leaders mightiness not cognize what gaps they request to capable until Wednesday morning.
Some schools person already announced that they volition close, but others are inactive deciding - meaning galore parents are inactive waiting to perceive whether they volition request to marque childcare arrangements.
Schools successful England person been asked to prioritise staying unfastened for susceptible pupils and students taking exams oregon mock exams connected Wednesday.
But galore students are apt to look disruption - for example, being fixed online learning to bash astatine home.
Schools successful Scotland are continuing to beryllium affected by strikes, portion most teachers successful Northern Ireland volition onslaught for fractional a time successful February, too.
Lecturers, librarians and different assemblage workers belonging to the UCU national are besides taking enactment connected 1 February.
So are bid drivers belonging to Aslef, affecting services successful England, Scotland and Wales,
About 100,000 civilian servants volition besides beryllium striking, arsenic good arsenic immoderate autobus drivers successful London.
The premier minister's authoritative spokesperson said: "We cognize that determination volition beryllium important disruption, fixed the standard of the onslaught enactment that is taking spot tomorrow, and that volition beryllium precise hard for the nationalist trying to spell astir their regular lives.
"We are upfront that this volition disrupt people's lives and that's wherefore we deliberation negotiations alternatively than picket lines are the close approach."
The spokesperson besides said the announcement of an ambulance workers' onslaught connected 10 February was "deeply concerning".
"We are putting successful spot important mitigations, which person antecedently helped trim immoderate of the interaction of these strikes," helium said, and urged unions to reconsider.
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