STRIKING teachers at 23 independent schools across England are celebrating after voting to accept an offer from bosses which protects pensions and removes fire-and-rehire threats to their jobs. 

After six days of industrial action, the first in the history of the Girls Day School Trust, existing staff will be allowed to remain in the Teachers’ Pension Scheme.

The National Education Union (NEU), which represents the teachers, said that the trust had also withdrawn a threat to impose inferior contracts and that a pay rise had been offered to all teachers and support workers.