Government shows contempt for teaching profession, says NASUWT

Speaking ahead of the publication of the School Teachers’ Pay Review Body (STRB) report, Dr Patrick Roach, General Secretary of the NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union said:

“The messages trickling out from the Government in recent days haven’t come close to addressing the real-terms impact of the massive cuts to pay over the last 12 years and the worst cost of living crisis for 50 years.

“If the Government hopes that teachers’ anger will dissipate over the course of the summer break, they are wrong.

“A pay award that is below inflation will be yet another pay cut.

“The Government has deliberately withheld the pay review body’s report until the very end of the school term, demonstrating once again their contempt for the profession.

“Teachers have been badly let down by this Government for more than a decade, and only a commitment to a programme of pay restoration can win the trust, confidence and morale of the profession.”