More teacher strikes incoming w/c 3rd July.

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All the teaching unions wrote a joint letter to Gillian Keegan in May asking her to release the independent pay review body recommendations into teacher pay which have been leaked as recommending a 6.5% pay rise for teachers and asking whether this will be accepted.

This was ignored.

The NEU have written again to Gillian Keegan asking that the pay review report be released and the government confirm whether it will accept its recommendations as headteachers are currently trying to set their budgets for September and urgently need to know how much of a pay rise teachers will be getting, and, crucially, how it will be funded. They said if this information wasn't forthcoming then further strikes in the week commencing 3rd July would be discussed.

Gillian Keegan has now responded saying that she won't tell headteachers what the pay rise for teachers will be for September until the summer holidays.

Headteachers can then spend their summer holidays working to fix their budgets.

No regard for their workload. No intention to negotiate with teachers.

Once again, education professionals expected to work harder to make up for the incompetence of government.

https://twitter.com/NEUnion/status/1667091984224321536

https://schoolsweek.co.uk/teacher-pay-keegan-suggests-strb-report-decision-wont-come-until-end-of-term/

The meeting to discuss and announce strike action will be this Saturday, 17th June.

If you don't want kids to miss out on more education due to the incompetence of this government, please email your MP asking them to forward your email to Gillian Keegan, suggesting that she get off her arse and do her job so that headteachers and teachers can do theirs.

Hear hear.

Summer holidays is utterly obnoxious.

It's got to be intentional, hasn't it? A deliberate 'fuck you' from Government.
So angry.

Oh Gillian... you really are a spiteful bitch, aren't you?

Has to be.

And she fancies herself as next pm? 😂

I genuinely think Gillian Keegan might be more invisible than The Boy Gavin was.

That is obnoxious timing.

A lot of maintained schools budgets run april to april so budgets are already submitted and we are already in this financial year with a best guess payrise from september in place. Theres an opportunity to adjust in november when the real figure is know. The LA advised the best guess figure.

Some academies lined up with academic years so might well have bern hoping to use a real figure.

The pay review advice always used to be out in April, in time for budget setting. It's got later and later under the Tories. No reason other than to be bloody.

She me schools may have to make redundancy plans based on assumptions that might not be correct

And to think I once believed Gavlar was the worst Ed Sec we could possibly have…

What the actual hell is she doing now that is more important than sorting this out?

How can we plan for September if we don't know how much money we have to spend? She is fucking evil.

The summer break being the time that MPs don't work on an extended break. About time MPs in office need to have worked in the area they oversea for a minimum amount of time.

Yes, we have been to consultation and start september with a new staffing structure, (less TA support) based on a guessed payrise for teachers that we assume wont be fully funded.
Its been fabulous.

I've voted and will stick by it.
It's time the government stopped playing around and realised that teachers, headteachers and unions are serious.
Do they really think that putting this off until the holidays will be seen as anything but a deliberate ploy to attempt to get parents / headteachers / whoever on side?
What a bunch of fools - and the saddest thing is they are in power (and seem to think they can carry on regardless).

Totally agree with this!