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The failure to provide salaries which are competitive and which reflect the immensely skilled nature of the job of teaching is triggering a teacher exodus, warns NASUWT general secretary PATRICK ROACH
NASUWT leader Patrick Roach

AFTER two years of being forced to move to a virtual event, I am delighted that this year the NASUWT is able to return to holding an in-person annual conference this weekend.

Our members are gathering in Birmingham for four days of debates and discussion which will set our policy agenda for the year ahead.

Our agenda is decided by our members, they tell us what matters to them, but underlying the wide-ranging set of issues which will be debated runs a thread of discontent at the growing crisis in teacher wellbeing and morale.

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