STRIKES look set to continue after a Reform Deputy’s bid to provide money to Education for teacher salaries failed.
Deputy Catherine Curtis’s amendment to the Government Plan was this afternoon defeated by 32 votes to 13.
She was hoping to divert £2 million from the proposed £79.2 million Cabinet Office budget for 2024 to the Education fund “to fulfil the required uplift for teacher pay, allowing normal service to resume in schools”, Deputy Curtis wrote in the report.
In the debate, Deputy Curtis said: “The extra responsibility and work that teachers do has been acknowledged with extra pay to head teachers.
“Other teachers have not been adequately recognised for their workload, and their basic wage pay has fallen over the years – we have an unresolved problem of teachers’ pay.”
Strikes will continue tomorrow.
