With the government ending the requirement for schools to use the performance-related pay system, Louise Hatswell considers the opportunities this presents
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Finally, schools are free from the requirement to operate performance-related pay and can break those chains!

For many years now, there have been calls for the removal of performance-related pay in schools. These calls have come from a variety of stakeholders, perhaps not unsurprisingly driven by the teaching unions, including us at the Association of School and College Leaders. More recently, the School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB) itself has made similar observations.

One of the recommendations from the Workload Reduction Taskforce (set up under the previous government) was for performance-related pay (PRP) to be removed from the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) from September 2024.

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