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The National Education Union (NEU) announced that its members have overwhelmingly rejected the 2023 pay offer and would be holding further strikes.

The 2022 pay deal for support staff in schools which follow the National Joint Council (NJC) terms and conditions for support staff was that all pay points would increase by £1925 per annum.  

Teachers in England have been offered a pay rise after the Government set out an offer on pay, conditions and workload to the education unions.  

On 23 March 2023 the National Foundation for Educational Research published its annual report into the teacher labour market.

The PE and sport premium helps primary schools make additional and sustainable improvements to the quality of the PE, sport and physical activity that they provide.

The National Employers for local government services announced yesterday, 23rd February, the offer of a pay increase of at least £1,925 from April 2023.

The recently published evidence to the STRB reiterates the Department’s view that targeting pay at the early career with a higher starting salary of £30,000  ‘’remains critical to addressing recruitment and retention challenges where they are greatest and thereby ensuring good value for money for taxpayers’’. 

School budget setting season is nearly upon us. In this article, we highlight some key points that aim to support budget planning assumptions.

On the 10th of January 2023, The Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy introduced the Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Bill 2023(2), (the Bill) which is designed to enable employers to require enough workers to work to ensure minimum service levels are delivered during strikes within relevant services.