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Teaching unions welcome 5.5% pay rise as ‘first step’ to fixing retention crisis
Daniel Kebede, the General Secretary Elect of the National Education Union (NEU), joins a picket line at Regent High School in north west London, July 5, 2023

TEACHING unions have welcomed the government’s commitment to increase pay by 5.5 per cent this year.

ASCL, NAHT, NASUWT, NEU and Community warned this must only be a first step towards reversing pay erosion since 2010 and address the sector’s recruitment and retention crisis.

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