The ASCL school leaders’ union has demanded a “fully-funded, above inflation pay increase” next year and a plan to “fully restore the erosion of pay” since 2010.
In its evidence to the School Teachers’ Review Body, which makes recommendations on teacher and leadership pay every year, the union said once the “real-terms value of pay has been restored”, annual uplifts must “continue to be fully-funded” and keep pace with inflation.
It comes after the government warned the STRB it wanted to see pay rises return to a “more sustainable” level than in the last two years, when pay rose by 5 per cent and 6.5 per cent respectively.
The government’s analysis has also predicted schools will only have headroom to raise spending by 1.2 per cent next year, which would only cover a rise of around 2 per cent. Inflation stood at 4 per cent in January.
