The win is that it is funded.
Had it been unfunded then budgets would have been decimated and we'd have lost even more support staff.
It was always clear that teachers were striking for the rises to be funded not taken out of school budgets.
It isn't enough, it's still below inflation and doesn't make up for the decade plus of pay cuts but it's something. It being funded allows schools to hang on longer.
Of course we need to keep fighting and raising awareness of issues in schools. What has been proven is that teachers action is able to make a difference and that power won't be forgotten you'd hope ie. trying to take pay rises out of school budgets next year.
I'm not sure I want to accept but it isn't up to me and I would love clarity as to how they think they're going to reduce workload and enforce schools actually doing this as my school just keeps adding more work.
The achieving government funding for hte pay rise is the one way we could strike for schools funding - we can't strike to make government fund schools properly but we can at least ensure that they don't strip schools of even more funding by making them pay for pay rises out of existing budgets.