Question follow-through · 38509
Classroom Assistants: Conditions of Employment and Pay
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the (a) pay and (b) other conditions of teaching assistants in schools.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Education
- Tabled
- 14 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 24 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the (a) pay and (b) other conditions of teaching assistants in schools.
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Mar 2025
Answer published
Teaching assistants play a vital role in children’s education.Most school support staff, including teaching assistants, are currently employed on National Joint Council (NJC) for local government services pay and conditions. The NJC is a negotiating body ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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