Nevertheless, those at the bottom of the main pay scale will receive an automatic 2% increase, a small proportion of teachers. As such it is consistent with the government’s public sector 1% pay policy.
The STRB report recommended the following:
A 2% uplift to the minimum and maximum of the main pay range (MPR) A 1% uplift to the minima and maxima of the upper pay range (UPR), the unqualified teacher pay range and the leading practitioner pay range A 1% uplift to the minima and maxima of the leadership group pay range and all head teacher group pay ranges A 1% uplift to the minima and maxima of the Teaching and Learning Responsibility (TLR) and Special Educational Needs (SEN) allowance ranges.
Commenting on the government’s announcement, Kevin Courtney, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said;
“This is a missed opportunity which the Government will come to regret as the teacher recruitment and retention crisis gets worse.
Teachers’ pay increases have fallen behind inflation by 13% since 2010 while this public sector pay policy has been applied. This latest pay announcement will mean that figure increases to over 15%. The pay being offered to newly qualified teachers would be over £3500 higher if the pay cap had never been applied and schools would have far fewer difficulties in recruiting new graduates. ‘The Government’s attack on national pay scales and its pursuit of performance related pay at a time of funding cuts in schools has meant that teachers are increasingly unlikely to get pay progression either. The result is that the Government’s own figures show that average pay for classroom teachers has only gone up by £300 – less than 1% – since 2010.
The Government announcement does however allow a 2% increase for all teachers on the Main pay scale, not just newly qualified teachers, and the NUT will be pressing the Government to ensure that this happens.
‘The School Teachers’ Review Body has told the Government that teachers continue to be paid less than other graduate professionals throughout their careers and that the pressures faced by schools in attracting high quality teachers have not reduced. It has also said that there needs to be a longer-term investment in an effective teaching workforce. This clearly supports the NUT’s argument that the Government needs to invest in more and better paid school staff.”
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Public sector exit payments cap 18 July 2017
A question recently asked of our Advisory team prompted us to clarify the current position on public sector exit payments being capped at £95,000.
Regulations do not yet exist that create the public sector exit cap itself. The Treasury, Scottish Ministers and Welsh Ministers have had the power to bring forward regulations since 1 February 2017, but they have not yet done so.
Background A statutory instrument brought The Enterprise Act 2016 (Commencement No. 2) Regulations 2017 into force on 1 February 2017. Part of this regulation brought Section 41 of the Enterprise Act 2016 into force on 1 February 2017 which inserts sections 153A, 153B and 153C into the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015 .
Geographical extent – these regulations apply to all four nations of the UK.
Section 153A confers a power to make regulations to restrict exit payments payable to employees of prescribed public sector authorities or holders of prescribed public sector offices as a consequence of them leaving employment or office to a maximum value of £95,000.
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