Negotiations in detail - Who has been offered what, from teachers to the police
The Guardian|July 14, 2023
Teachers - A 6.5% pay rise is being offered to teachers in England in what appears to be a package that also avoids problems with how increases would be funded.
Ben Quinn
Negotiations in detail - Who has been offered what, from teachers to the police

The general secretaries of four education unions have said they will recommend that their members accept the offer and call off industrial action.

While unions have been insisting that pay increases come with extra resources from the government rather than being met from school budgets, the government is funding almost half of the pay rise by "reprioritising" within its budgets.

Doctors and consultants

Junior doctors in England are being offered a 6% increase, along with a consolidated rise of £1,250, while hospital consultants are being offered 6%. The offer is well below the 35% rise that the British Medical Association - the union for doctors - says is needed to make up for years of real-terms pay cuts, and is below the 12.4% offered to junior doctors in Scotland.

What Sunak described as a "final" offer was made as junior doctors began a five-day strike in England, which is being described as the longest industrial action of its kind in NHS history.

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