Members of the National Education Union, the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers, the National Association of Head Teachers and the Association of School and College Leaders voted to agree that the pay award recommended by the Independent Pay Review Body was sufficient to not take industrial action on pay this term.<\/p>
School teachers will receive the largest pay award in three decades of 6.5% beginning in September 2023. Alongside this, the Government has met the manifesto commitment to give all new teachers a starting salary of at least £30,000. The Department is also providing schools with £525 million this year and £900 million next year to fund the award. This comes on top of the £2 billion a year financing in schools announced at the Autumn Statement 2022, which will take school funding to its highest level in history. Combined, this means school funding will now be nearly £60 billion in the 2024/25 financial year.<\/p>
Alongside additional funding, the Department has committed to convening a taskforce comprised of union representatives, experts, and experienced practitioners. The Secretary of State will continue to work closely with unions on issues that matter to teachers, including through the Workload Reduction Taskforce, to explore how the Department can go further to support head teachers with workloads and enable teachers and head teachers to focus on high quality teaching.<\/p>
The Government plays no role in setting or making recommendations regarding pay in colleges or other further education (FE) institutions. For the first time ever, the Secretary of State for Education announced that the Department will provide additional financing in the FE sector of £185 million in financial year 2023/24 and £285 million in the 2024/25 financial year. This funding will enable colleges to address key priorities, including supporting recruitment and retention. This funding is in addition to the £125 million of funding that it has already been announced will be available in the 2023/24 financial year to boost the national 16 to 19 funding rate and subject specific funding. This means that 16 to 19 institutions will see a larger than expected increase to funding rates.<\/p>
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The Government consulted publicly on whether licensing hours should be relaxed during the FIFA World Cup 2014. A range of representations were made both for and against the proposal. We received a total of 1,468 responses to the online consultation. 77% (1,095 respondents) believed that any national relaxation of licensing hours should apply to England and Wales. However, only 2% (25 respondents) identified themselves as living or working in Wales.
While a majority of Welsh respondents favoured a relaxation for England and Wales, there was a difference between English and Welsh respondents about how the relaxation might be delivered. There was a clear majority of Welsh respondents who favoured using the Temporary Event Notice system, rather than a blanket relaxation, while of English respondents the majority (74%) favoured a blanket relaxation. This is consistent with what the Government has opted to do: a national blanket relaxation in England, with licensed premises able to use the Temporary Event Notice system in Wales.
Section 172 of the Licensing Act 2003 allows the relevant Secretary of State to make an order relaxing opening hours for licensed premises to mark occasions of \u2018exceptional international, national or local significance'. The Government considers that the England football team's participation in the FIFA World Cup 2014 is an event of exceptional national significance in England.
The Government has therefore decided not to include Wales in the relaxation of licensing hours for the FIFA World Cup 2014. However, licensed premises in Wales wishing to remain open beyond their licensed hours will be able to do so by using the Temporary Event Notice procedure.<\/p>
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