Education secretary Nicky Morgan has promised to produce “detailed evidence” to support the case for continued pay restraint for teachers in England and Wales.
Her comments have sparked warnings that the recruitment and retention crisis will only be made worse by capping pay rises and depriving others of any pay rises at all.
It comes as Ms Morgan last week wrote to the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) asking for its recommendations on how to apply the one per cent public sector pay award for 2016/17.
The rise was set out by chancellor George Osborne in the Summer Budget and continues five years of pay restraint for teachers. A two-year public sector pay freeze was followed by one per cent rises across the board in September 2013 and 2014.
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