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Unless this and any future Government addresses teacher pay, workload and school funding we shall only see the teacher recruitment and retention crisis deepen.

ASCL, Community, NAHT, NASUWT and NEU have issued a united call for a fully funded, inflation-plus pay increase to tackle the recruitment and retention crisis.

We urgently need a child poverty strategy setting out clear policy objectives to tackle the prevalence of child poverty.

Clearly, the best place for students is in school but there are many factors causing our current absence figures.

These figures only refer to the capacity of each school and do not even consider the staffing crisis within schools, where we know recruitment targets are missed year after year.

82% of teachers surveyed believe Ofsted should be replaced with a new system of inspection.

16% of teachers plan to leave in two years, and 41% plan to be gone within five.

94% of teachers and 97% of support staff respondents believe that poverty or low income affects learning.

The majority of teachers are struggling with workload.

A quarter of respondents say they have no access to CAMHS for their students and 80% say that excessive workload is a barrier to getting the right help for their pupils.

The State of Education survey gauges the views of working teacher, support staff and school leader NEU members in England and Wales.

The NEU values the early years sector. It’s about time the government did too.