It’s a simple fact that with good teachers, recognised and rewarded as highly skilled professionals and with working conditions to enable them to focus on teaching and learning, children and young people will receive their entitlement to high-quality schooling and education provision.
Sadly, this is not the environment being created for teachers.
Since 2010, there have been relentless attacks on teachers. Year-on-year real-terms cuts to teachers’ pay, workload spiralling out of control, deprofessionalisation, demoralisation and denigration.
And when faced with deep cuts to their salaries, increased pension contributions and excessive workload blighting their working lives, health and wellbeing, is it little wonder that teacher resignations are up and applications to join the profession are down.
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