STRB Response

Community, alongside fellow educators’ unions NEU, NAHT and ASCL, has submitted a joint statement to the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB).

You can read the response in full here.

Community’s Operations Director and National Officer for Education and Early Years, Helen Osgood, said:

“Community Union urges the STRB to act on teachers’ pay, to ensure that pay remains at levels that give the profession a chance to flourish, and become a profession that graduates aspire to belong to and teachers want to remain in.

“For too long, pay in education has suffered from austerity. Community Union urges the STRB to give education a chance, and ensure that education professionals are paid at a level that helps restore pay to where it should be at, if pay had kept pace with inflation.

“Retention is key – not supporting our education professionals means that we are running the risk of empty classrooms up and down the country, and this will only serve to deepen the crisis in education. Education professionals put children first every day of their lives, nurturing and developing them. Community urges the STRB to put education professionals first.”

Further information

The School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) makes recommendations on the pay, professional duties and working time of school teachers in England and reports to the Secretary of State for Education and the Prime Minister.

Community has also submitted its own Evidence to the School Teachers’ Review Body.

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