Community has told the School Teachers’ Review Body that a pay increase in September 2023 of 3% for most teachers and leaders in England would be “completely unacceptable” – and criticised the review body process itself.
In its latest submission to the STRB, the union said that, on the basis of current inflation predictions, such low rise would result in “yet another significant real-terms pay cut”.
National Officer Helen Osgood said:
“We need urgent action on teacher and leader pay to break the dismal cycle of pay cuts that we have seen since 2010.
“The review body process – constrained by the Government’s deliberate attempts to ignore the damage caused by its political choices – has not protected teachers and school leaders from devastating pay cuts, or protected the education service from the huge recruitment and retention problems to which pay cuts have contributed.
