Source · Select Committees · Education Committee
Recommendation 5
5
Accepted in Part
Teacher pay requires competitive increases without adversely affecting other school budgets.
Conclusion
We understand the Department’s budgetary pressures. However, in order to compete with other sectors and improve recruitment and retention, teacher pay must keep pace year on year with other comparable sectors. It is also essential that funding to enable the continued competitiveness of teacher salaries does not adversely impact levels of funding elsewhere in the schools budget. (Paragraph 45) 76 Teacher recruitment, training and retention
Government response summary AI-generated
The government accepted in full the School Teachers’ Review Body’s recommendation for a 5.5% pay award for teachers and leaders, addressing the need for pay to keep pace. However, the response did not explicitly detail how funding would avoid adverse impact on other school budgets.
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Government Response
Accepted in Part
HM Government · verbatim extract
Accepted in Part
We accepted in full the School Teachers’ Review Body’s recommendation of a 5.5% pay award for teachers and leaders in maintained schools from this September.
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