Three education unions are joining forces at the Labour and Conservative conferences to highlight concern over the educational impact of teacher and funding shortages.
The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), school leaders’ union NAHT and the National Education Union (NEU) are holding fringe events which will discuss teacher pay, school budgets, and the rising cost of living.
The fringe events follow the government’s proposed below-inflation pay award of 5% for most school teachers and leaders this academic year. This will further cut pay in real terms following a decade of pay erosion, and it comes in the midst of a severe recruitment and retention crisis which has left most schools struggling to fill vacancies and put teachers in front of classes.
The fringe events follow the government’s proposed below-inflation pay award of 5% for most school teachers and leaders this academic year. This will further cut pay in real terms following a decade of pay erosion, and it comes in the midst of a severe recruitment and retention crisis which has left most schools struggling to fill vacancies and put teachers in front of classes.
