Teachers’ pay 2018/19
The Government has published the STRB’s 28th Report on the teachers’ pay
award for 2018-19. The full report and an executive summary can be found
at www.gov.uk/government/publications/school-teachers-review-body-28th-report-2018.
This will also take you to the Secretary of
State’s written statement on the response.
The Department for
Education has produced a draft 2018 School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions
Document (STPCD) which shows in tracked changes the differences from the current 2017 version. The changes primarily show
the changes to pay based on:
- 3.5 per cent to the minimum and maximum of the unqualified pay range and main pay range
- 2 per cent to the minimum and maximum of the upper pay range, leading practitioner pay
range and all allowances
- 1.5 per cent to the minimum and maximum of the leadership pay ranges.
It has come to our attention that the summary
and page seven of the draft indicate that ALL allowances across the ranges will be
increased by 2 per cent, but later in the draft document TLR and SEN payments have
increased by 3.5 per cent. DfE has confirmed that these
figures should have gone up by 2 per cent.
A key issue regarding the DfE response is we believe that
for the first time a core recommendation on pay from the Review Body has been
rejected, namely that the 3.5 per cent should cover all ranges.
At present the details on where the additional funding for
the ‘pay grant’ will come from and how it will be distributed are not clear.
However, it is clear that there will be no new money from the Treasury and the
money will be found from within the existing DfE budget. The Minister’s
statement also only confirms that funding would be available for 2018-19 and
2019-20 and is silent on what happens after that period.
There is also a copy of the pay order and the DfE response to the report.
We appreciate that the
delayed publication means that LGA will be seeking views from local authorities
during the school closure period, but that is beyond our control.
Our timescale for views from councils that will inform the NEOST response is Friday 17 August.
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