Members of the ASCL school leaders’ union have voted to reject the government’s pay offer by a margin of 87 per cent to 13 per cent.
The union achieved 56 per cent turnout in its consultative ballot about Gillian Keegan’s offer of a £1,000 one-off payment this year and 4.3 per cent pay rise for most teachers and leaders next year.
Asked to state the “most significant factor” in their decision to vote no. Sixty-nine per cent cited the “inadequacy of the additional funding provided to schools” for next year’s offer. Twenty-nine per cent cited the inadequacy of the pay offer.
It comes after the National Education Union announced yesterday that 98 per cent of voting members had voted to reject the offer, on a turnout of 66 per cent. The NEU has called further strikes on April 27 and May 2.
