Insegnanti e medici per ottenere un aumento delle retribuzioni del 4% man mano che i ministri rivelano aumenti delle retribuzioni nel settore pubblico – Live della politica del Regno Unito
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Great! Investing in public sector is win-win for all. Need services and schools back to a good level
People scoff at Labour but their generous payrises for teachers is exactly why I’m doing my PGCE this Autumn. Starting of a teacher is likely to be around 33k when I qualify in 2026 which is genuinely a competitive offer.
This is better than I was expecting but even then for many, with inflation being what it is, its another pay cut in real terms.
Oh and it seems like Schools will be expected to fund a large part of the pay deal themselves, so there is actually less money going into schools, unless I’m reading it wrong.
Edit:- And we are expecting tax rises soon, so even more of that pay rise may just….. disappear
Back-to-back above inflation pay rises are good to see.
3.6 percent increase for non doctors. Sigh. My bills have gone up way past 3.6 percent. Would be nice to be on a real wage.
3.6% for those in the NHS on Afc. So a whole .1% above inflation.
9.5% increase for teachers since Labour came to power, and they deserve every penny.
Those are great news. Salaries above inflation are beyond necessary for the public sector. This is not simply about increasing their salaries as much as it is an attempt of retrieving the standards we had back in 2005.
A starting teacher’s salary would be around £35,500 had it simply kept with inflation since 2005 to now. It is currently almost £33,000.
This trend goes through most of the public sector workers. Junior Doctors are still earning around 9% less than what they would have been earning back in 2005 – inflation adjusted.
4% is actually pretty good! Most people who don’t work in the public sector aren’t getting a pay raise this year, and if they do it’s going to be nowhere near the 3% of cost of living inflation.
Inevitably some won’t be happy at another public sector pay rise, but it is important to note:
* Many essential workers are still earning 25-30% less in real terms than they were in 2010 even as the required qualifications and skillsets have increased
* Whilst the headlines will focus on the higher paid earners like Doctors, under this pay rise a lot of NHS hospital staff and ambulance workers will still only be earning £25-27k to provide 24/7 life-saving care in highly stressful and sometimes dangerous environments. The same wage as a shelf stacker at Aldi.
Teacher here. 4% is fine with teachers is the mood, but the government is expecting a quarter of the pay rise to be funded from existing school budgets.
>In a written statement to Parliament, Phillipson said she is “asking schools and colleges to do their part in ensuring that we are driving productivity across all areas of the public sector”, she added.
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>Schools “will be expected to find approximately the first 1 per cent of pay awards through improved productivity and smarter spending to make every pound count.
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>“There will be those who say this cannot be done, but I believe schools have a responsibility, like the rest of the public sector, to ensure that their funding is spent as efficiently as possible.”
I don’t think it can be stressed enough that if schools were able to save money through “improved productivity” then we would’ve done it already after 15 years of austerity.
It’s too soon to tell what the mood of the unions is, but this is a sticking point: we don’t have ANY money left, literally. At my school funding a quarter of the pay rise would amount to finding about £35k a year from our budget. Where? The only place left to do that is staff themselves, everything else has been cut to the bone already.
Saying “find the pay rise from existing budgets” effectively just means “your budget for next year is reduced”. And there is no room for that, there just isn’t. So all these comments praising this as good news, keep that in mind if there’s further strike action over this.
Does anyone know if this includes teaching assistants as well? A family member who is a TA is criminally underpaid, often having a way harder job than the teacher as they have to deal with the most disruptive and violent kids whilst the teacher attempts to wrangle control of the class back.