NAHT responds to education secretary's announcement of
teacher pay report delay
Responding to the education secretary Bridget Phillipson's
confirmation this afternoon in a live sector webinar that the
School Teachers Review Body (STRB) report recommending teacher
pay for 2024/25 won't be published before the summer holidays,
Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the school leaders' union,
NAHT said:
"We look forward to engaging positively with the new government
on this year's pay award when it is ready later this year. We had
asked that the STRB recommendations were published prior to the
election and understand this has impacted timings.
“The delay to funding allocations will also cause difficulties
for already stretched schools. However, we recognise the need to
take sufficient time to determine how to fund and restore real
terms pay in order to once again make teaching an attractive and
compelling graduate career option that retains teachers and
leaders for the long term."
Commenting on Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson's
announcement that the Government will not publish the STRB Report
this week, Dr Patrick Roach, General Secretary of NASUWT –
The Teachers' Union, said:
“The delay to the publication of the STRB Report will no doubt
raise questions, so it is vital that the new government works
quickly to provide the clarity, transparency and certainty that
teachers deserve.
“The last Government had a track record of contempt for the pay
review body process and for the profession, including their
deliberate strategy of delaying the remit and publication of STRB
reports over many years and by presiding over more than a decade
of real terms pay cuts.
“The new Government has the opportunity to build a new
relationship with the profession by quickly confirming its
commitment to delivering a funded pay award this year and
embarking on work with us on the big question of teachers' pay
restoration.”
