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NEU conference urges Labour to fix school funding crisis by getting rid of academy bosses earning over £500,000
NEU delegate David Room moves motion calling for an end to fat cat academy boss salaries at the union’s conference in Harrogate on Monday

LABOUR was urged to fix the schools funding crisis by getting rid of academy bosses earning more than £500,000 by Britain’s largest education union yesterday.

Delegates shouted “shame” as the highest earning multi-academy trust (MAT) chiefs were named and shamed at the National Education Union’s (NEU) annual conference.

Cheers sounded as Harris Federation CEO Sir Dan Moynihan, the first academy trust leader to cross the half-a-million mark, was told to “take his salary and go and live on a desert island.”

Mr Kebede said: “Far from being better places to work, our research reveals large MATs are havens for higher workload and poorer work-life balance for their staff. 

“These findings underline the importance of ensuring that academies are brought into a national system of pay and conditions.

“Currently, England has the biggest crisis in the recruitment and retention of teachers for more than 20 years.

“We must do all that we can to fix it. That includes employers as well as government.”

The Department for Education was contacted for comment.

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