Union bosses say the education secretary is “on notice” to “change her stance” and start proper pay negotiations or face millions of pupils missing school again through further teacher strikes.
The National Education Union claimed around 300,000 teachers went on strike yesterday.
Over half of schools closed partially or fully. Around four in ten pupils missed school, attendance data from Arbor Education’s 3,300 schools showed. If extrapolated – this would mean 3.2 million pupils across England missed school because of strikes.
Use of the Oak National Academy was double last year’s Omicron peak.
