On 30th September 2024, the Department for Education (DfE) wrote to the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) asking for recommendations on teachers’ pay and conditions for 2025.
The full letter can be accessed here.
The Secretary of State has requested:
- recommendations to be provided 'at the earliest point', as the new government seeks to move the process earlier in the year aligning the pay cycle with the school budget cycle
- recommendations on whether changes should be made to the pro-rating of teaching and learning responsibility (TLR) payments to enable greater flexibility
- views on how the current framework can best support teachers from all backgrounds and with protected characteristics, including by promoting flexible working
In considering recommendations the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) is asked, as is usual, to have regard to the:
- national state of school teacher and leader supply, including rates of recruitment and retention, vacancy rates, and the quality of candidates entering the profession
- cost pressures that schools are already facing and may face over the year (and how they affect individual schools)
The DfE has also committed to providing more frequent and detailed equality, diversity and inclusion data at a national level including the publication of pay and progression data by protected characteristics, in parallel with their written evidence.
Evidence from the DfE is expected to be provided to the STRB 'as soon as possible' after the Autumn Budget on 30th October.
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