Last year, ministers asked the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) to review teachers’ conditions of service and its report was due to be handed in to the Department for Education (DfE) on Friday (January 10).
The government’s intentions are clear. In its own evidence to the STRB’s review, it calls for limits on teachers’ working hours to be axed to allow schools to implement longer working days.
Current working time provisions state that teachers must work no more than 1,265 hours across 195 days in a year, including five INSET days. Teachers are also not currently required to work on Saturdays or Sundays.
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