She continued: "The deal brings an end to the disruption faced by parents and young people and means we can focus on what matters most - giving our children a world-class education."
Gillian Keegan said the decision is "good news for teachers, good news for parents, and most of all, good news for children". The education secretary has hailed the news that teachers who are members of the National Education Union (NEU) voted to accept the government's offer of a 6.5% pay rise. "We will continue to negotiate on the workload and wellbeing aspects of the government’s offer." “Although the pay and funding offered by the government is not everything our members asked for, it is the largest ever recommendation from the STRB and the additional funding and hardship fund provided by the government to fund the pay award makes the deal workable. "School leaders are reasonable people, and striking is very much a last resort, but our members have felt compelled to vote for action by a government that simply wasn’t listening. NAHT General Secretary Paul Whiteman said: “Our ballot results today clearly show the strength of feeling within the education profession that action is urgently needed. In a re-ballot of NAHT members on walkouts -which opened in May before the current pay offer - 82% voted for strikes, with a turnout of 54%. Meanwhile, 85% of respondents at the NAHT voted to accept the offer. NASUWT General Secretary Dr Patrick Roach said: "Whilst NASUWT members are willing to accept the STRB pay award recommendation, they do not believe that it is sufficient redress for the impact of more than a decade of real-terms pay cuts, where the value of teachers’ pay has declined by 25%." Some 77.6% of NASUWT's members indicated they were willing to accept the pay offer as part of a consultative survey, but just 18.4% of the 18,000 respondents said the measures announced to tackle excessive workload were sufficient.
Teachers who are members of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) and the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) have accepted a 6.5% pay rise for teachers and school leaders in England.
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