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The Government has published the School Teachers Review Body’s (STRB's) 29th Report on the teachers’ pay award for 2019, and its response.
You will be aware that the STRB recommended a 2.75 per cent increase to all pay ranges. The Department for Education (DfE) has accepted the report recommendations in full and is to invest £105m to part fund the increase. At present the details on where any additional funding will come from and how it will be distributed are not clear, but DfE evidence to STRB suggested the schools system could afford a two per cent increase so the £105m is to cover the additional 0.75%.
The LGA fed into the STRB review through National Employers Organisation for School Teachers (NEOST), and Employer Link subscribers were given the opportunity to forward their views to be considered when the evidence was submitted. Our submission stated that the pay uplift should be fully funded.
The next phase is for a consultation on the Secretary of State’s response to the STRB’s report or the draft STPCD. Employer Link would also like to offer our subscribers the opportunity to to feed their views into this process. We appreciate that means we are seeking your views during the school closure period but that is beyond our control. We would like your views no later than 23 August. Please email them to info@employerlink.co.uk.
The four questions we would like you to consider are:
- THE NEOST position was for an above one per cent pay award that was applied consistently across all the ranges. The proposal will deliver this (albeit without the full-funding we stressed was vital) and that is why we are not asking any specific questions on the nature of the award as it appears to be consistent with what our stakeholders told us was needed. However if you do have additional comments, then please provide a summary of the overall views of the schools that you support.
- What do you think the impact will be on your school(s) as only 0.75 per cent of the 2.75 per cent award is funded? Our preference is for hard data from across your schools, however if some texture can be provide through the use of a few individual examples that would also be helpful
- As a result of your experience of the 2018 pay grant formula and in anticipation of this continuing to fund the above two per cent (0.75 per cent) 2019 pay award, would there be any reason why certain specific types of schools might be disproportionately disadvantaged under this approach e.g. are there schools/provision where there is a clear reason for having much higher staffing spend?
- Whilst the final details of the funding have not emerged yet, we anticipate that no funding will be provided for Centrally Employed Teachers’. What implication(s) is this likely to have for your organisation?
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