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Public Sector Pay Review

Multiple government departments including the Department of Health and Social Care, HM Treasury, and the Home Office are conducting the 2026-27 public sector pay review, coordinated by the Office of Manpower Economics and the Senior Salaries Review Body. The review addresses recruitment and retention challenges across the public sector, with particular focus on teacher pay which has fallen significantly in real terms since 2010, and fair pay agreements in adult social care. This is an active pay round with draft statutory instruments and economic evidence submissions underway.

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9 Jul 2025 | Written evidence linked

The Department regards pay as its strongest lever in recruiting and retaining teachers. For example, following the most recent 5.5% pay award, the Department reduced its teacher trainee targets as it expected 2,500 more teachers to stay. However, teacher pay has lagged behind others – in 2024, those working in the education sector were paid around 10% less in real terms than in 2010, with the wider public sector being paid on average 2.6% less than in 2010.58 Written evidence from the Nationa...

The Department regards pay as its strongest lever in recruiting and retaining teachers. For example, following the most recent 5.5% pay award, the Department reduced its teacher trainee targets as it expected 2,500 more teachers to stay. However, teacher pay …

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22 Oct 2021 | Written evidence linked

In its written evidence, the National Association of Head Teachers emphasised the need to improve salaries for teachers and school leaders as a critical element of any strategy to resolve the “longstanding recruitment and retention crisis”. It said that schools did not have the fiscal headroom to reverse the real-terms decline in the salaries of teachers and leaders, and that all future employer costs, including salary, National Insurance and pension contributions, should be fully funded by g...

In its written evidence, the National Association of Head Teachers emphasised the need to improve salaries for teachers and school leaders as a critical element of any strategy to resolve the “longstanding recruitment and retention crisis”. It said that schools …

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