School Teachers' Review Body (22nd Report)

Thursday 27th June 2013 Written Statements

[The Secretary of State for Education (Michael Gove)]

The “22nd Report of the School Teachers’ Review Body” (STRB) is being published today. The report contains recommendations on how to apply the pay award that is due to be implemented from September 2013.

I am grateful for the careful consideration which the STRB has given to this important matter. Copies of the STRB’s 22nd Report have been laid before Parliament today and are available in the Vote Office, the Printed Paper Office and the Libraries of both Houses, and online at: www.education.gov.uk and www.ome.uk.com.

The STRB has recommended that a 1% pay award should be applied equally to all salaries and allowances in payment, and to all points on the pay scales contained in the School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD). This includes an increase of 1% from September 2013 in the values of:

All points on the unqualified, main and upper pay scales for classroom teachers;

The minimum and maximum of the pay range for leading practitioners and all pay ranges for individual posts set before taking account of the September 2013 uplift;

All points on the leadership pay spine;

Any individual allowances in payment and to the minima and the maxima of the ranges for all teacher allowances.

I am grateful to the STRB for these recommendations and, subject to the views of consultees, I intend to accept them in full.

My officials will shortly write to all of the statutory consultees of the STRB to invite them to contribute to a consultation on my acceptance of these recommendations, and on the text of the 2013 STPCD. The consultation will last for four weeks.