Commenting on the Government’s submitted evidence to the School Teachers’ Review Body, Daniel Kebede, general secretary of the National Education Union, said:
"A proposed 6.5% pay award spread over three years will amount to a real-terms pay cut for teachers. The last Labour government made education its top priority - 'education, education, education.' This Labour government, however, is failing to deliver on its promises.
"Instead of 6,500 more teachers, we have botched Ofsted reforms, declining school funding, and now a pay recommendation that will do nothing to address the continued crisis in retention.
"If this government were truly serious about education, it would invest in its workforce - not make the living standards of dedicated teachers worse.
"Austerity Labour is paving the way for a Reform government. A government that will take our public services from crisis to collapse."