MP, Labour’s Shadow
Secretary of State for Education, commenting on a new
Education Policy Institute report exposing teacher shortages,
said:
“The Tories are clearly responsible for the crisis in teacher
recruitment and retention.
“Fewer people are training to join the profession, and teachers
are leaving our schools in record numbers. They’ve been forced
out by a Tory government that has slashed their pay by thousands
of pounds.
“The response of austerity-obsessed Ministers is to once more cut
teachers’ pay in real terms. They’ve also cut schools’ budgets,
and yet they are pressuring those schools to foot more of the
teachers’ pay bill.
“The next Labour government will end this crisis, investing in
our schools to support teachers and providing ring-fenced
funding. We’ll give our teachers the pay rise they deserve.”
Ends
Notes to editors
https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Financial-sustainability-of-schools.pdf p.
17
- · The independent
Institute for Fiscal Studies found that the recent announcement
on teachers’ pay would still leave around 60% of teachers facing
a below inflation pay award, meaning a real terms cut to their
pay https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/13222
- · Labour have
committed to a £4.8 billion increase in overall school spending,
with separate, ring-fenced funding to lift the public sector pay
cap https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/9208
