As a statutory consultee, ASCL has submitted a response to the consultation on the draft School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) 2024, the STRB’s 34th Report, and the Secretary of State’s response to it.
In our response we welcomed the 5.5% increase and the additional funding provided to support the implementation. We also made clear that we must continue to see increases of this nature in forthcoming years until the real-terms value of teacher leader pay has been restored and salaries become competitive with comparable graduate professions.
We again said that we believe that the scope of the STRB and the STPCD should be broadened to ensure that it remains relevant to the whole state-funded sector, including academies. We reiterated our call that business leaders are brought into that scope under a leadership category to ensure that they are recognised and remunerated in the same way as their leadership colleagues.
Now that the consultation has closed, the DfE will consider the responses, finalise the drafts and lay the Pay Order in Parliament. This normally takes 21 days before it comes into effect. Please remember that the pay uplifts recommended by the STRB remain provisional until the pay award consultation and Pay Order are finalised. Therefore, employers should not finalise changes to their pay policy until after the Pay Order has been laid.
Read our response here
Joint union response to STRB 34th Report and Ministerial Response
In conjunction with Community, NAHT, NASUWT and NEU, we have also submitted a joint response to the consultation on the STRB’s 34th Report and the Secretary of State’s response to it. Again, we welcomed the 5.5% increase for this year but are clear that this must be only the first in a series of urgent steps to reverse the pay cuts against inflation inflicted on teachers and school leaders between 2010 and 2023. You can read the joint response and the press release
here.