Teachers to receive overall 1 per cent pay rise

12/07/17

The government has announced that teachers will receive a 1 per cent pay rise this September.

Education secretary Justine Greening has outlined a deal that she said “is consistent with the government’s public sector 1 per cent pay policy”.

Teachers at the bottom of the main pay scale will receive an automatic 2 per cent increase but Ms Greening said they only represented “a small proportion of teachers”.

She is accepting recommendations from the School Teachers Review Body to:

• Raise by 1 per cent the minimum and maximum of all pay ranges and allowances in the national pay framework, except
• The main scale where the minimum and maximum of the main pay range will rise by 2 per cent.

Only teachers at the bottom of pay ranges will receive automatic rises. The rest will be down to the discretion of schools.

The education secretary also indicated that schools would have to fund the cost of any pay increases out of their own budgets.

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