Staff at the Department for Education and Ofsted will go on strike for one day on February 1 as part of coordinated action across the civil service.
It is not yet known how many staff will walk out as part of the strike by the Public and Commercial Services Union in 124 government departments and agencies, which also includes the Office for Students and Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education.
It follows votes in favour of industrial action over pay, pensions, jobs and redundancy terms last year.
At the DfE, 911 staff, or 88 per cent of the 1,031 employees who cast a vote in the ballot were in favour of industrial action. The 1,816 PCS members at the department equate to 24 per cent of its total workforce.
