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Education Secretary warned to finish job on settling teachers' pay
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan leaves 10 Downing Street, London, March 15, 2023

EDUCATION SECRETARY Gillian Keegan has been warned to heed the consequences of failing to reopen negotiations on teachers’ pay.

NASUWT general secretary Patrick Roach made the plea to Ms Keegan in his address at the union’s annual conference in Glasgow on Sunday.

He said that she needed the “ministerial competence” to address the pay dispute after teachers in England rejected the one-off payment of £1,000 for 2022/23 and an average 4.5 per cent salary increase for 2023/24.

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