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Schools urged to drop performance-related pay 'as soon as possible'

With a 5.5% pay rise having been agreed for teachers this year, schools are being urged to end the practice of performance-related pay “as soon as possible”.
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From this term, PRP is no longer obligatory in schools after the previous government accepted the recommendations of the Workload Reduction Taskforce earlier this year.

An investigation by the taskforce – which is aiming to reduce average working hours for teachers and schools leaders by five hours a week – ruled that PRP was a “significant workload burden”.

As a result, the previous government had promised “a less bureaucratic way to manage performance fairly and transparently” from September.

Since the election, the new Department for Education (DfE) has published updated guidance on appraisals and capability “to support those schools that choose not to use PRP to inform their pay progression decisions”.

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