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Teachers: Conditions of Employment

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve the terms and conditions of teachers in the public sector.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 19 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 24 Mar 2025
Answer: 28 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

19 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help improve the terms and conditions of teachers in the public sector.
24 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Mar 2025
Answer published
There is a statutory process for making revisions to the pay and conditions of teachers, and any change must first be referred by my right hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Education, to the independent School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB).The depart...

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