The Government’s recommendation to the School Teachers’ Review Body of a 2.8% increase for teachers in 2025/26 is likely to be below inflation and will do nothing to repair the “damage” to teachers’ pay against other graduate professions, said the NEU.
Around 284,000 members of the National Education Union (NEU) working in maintained schools in England will be asked to vote on accepting or rejecting the Government’s recommendation and if they want to take industrial action.
A Department for Education spokesperson said: “In three years, teachers have had a combined pay increase of over 17%.
“It will deepen the chronic recruitment and retention crisis in our schools, and means more cuts for already struggling schools.
The union has complained the pay recommendation is unfunded, with schools paying for it by making efficiencies elsewhere in their budget.
