Member

On the matter of pay and conditions, the Bill enables the establishment of a pay floor to help to ensure a competitive pay offer for all state schoolteachers. This is crucial for recruiting and retaining the best teachers, who are integral to driving high standards in our schools. Through our wider reforms to teacher pay and conditions, we will spread best practice and innovation across the state school system by removing the ceiling on pay, as is the case for academies, and introducing greater flexibilities for all state schools—for example, enabling more flexible working for teachers, as we have discussed when previously considering this area.