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DfE promises more timely announcements on teachers' pay

School leaders are hopeful that a new timeframe for announcing the September pay award will finally take the guesswork out of the budget-setting process.
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Teachers, too, have welcomed plans to bring forward the pay award process – with many fed up with receiving their annual pay rise up to two months late.

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has set out her intention to bring forward the pay announcement in her remit letter to the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB), published this week.

In July, chancellor Rachel Reeve pledged that the new government would announce pay awards as close as possible to the start of the financial year in April.

In her letter, Ms Phillipson said that while the pay process will be brought forward this year, “knock-on effects” from delays to the previous pay round will mean that it is “unlikely that the pay award will be announced before maintained schools should be setting their budgets”.

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