Created on: 13 Sep 2024 | Last modified: 18 Sep 2024
The Teachers’ Panel of the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (SNCT) has today agreed to accept the pay offer of 4.27% from COSLA.
This decision was taken following the constituent unions on the panel consulting with their respective memberships.
In accepting this offer, the Teachers’ Panel welcomes its undifferentiated nature and the stated recognition of the Employers’ Side of the SNCT that the offer marks the first step towards the restoration of teacher salaries in Scotland.
The Teachers’ Panel looks forward to working with Employers and the Scottish Government on the creation of a ‘roadmap’ to restoration in the value of teachers’ pay to pre-austerity levels, across all career stages and salary levels.
The Teachers’ Panel remains committed to achieving meaningful progress towards solutions to the other challenges facing Scottish teachers. Not least of these is urgently reducing unsustainable levels of workload, which can begin to be addressed through the realisation of the Scottish Government’s manifesto commitment to decrease class contact time to 21 hours per week.
The Teachers’ Panel is clear that there needs to be swift movement on this reduction and that the resulting hour and a half a week must be afforded to teachers for planning and preparation of learning, which at present, is being undertaken in large part in teachers’ own time, unpaid.