Commentators are describing the General Election on May 7 as the most important for a generation and they are right. The result will affect profoundly the future of public services, the future of children and young people, the lives of working people and their families, and the pay, pensions, and conditions of service of public service workers.
Since 2010, teachers have endured five years of pay cuts, had their pensions plundered and their working conditions attacked. As a result there is now a teacher recruitment and retention crisis with falling applications and more than three-quarters of teachers stating that they have considered quitting the profession in the last year. Resignations are at an all-time high, morale at an all-time low.
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