Christina McAnea, Unison's national secretary for education, said, 'We welcome the secretary of state's willingness to discuss these issues, but the devil is in the detail.'
She added, 'The lack of a clear national framework has led to problems over implementing the workforce agreement in schools and we will be seeking a meeting with the secretary of state to explore these issues.'
In an interview with The Guardian last week Ms Kelly referred to the creation of national pay scales for teachers 20 years ago and added, 'One thing that I'm very open to considering, although I haven't made up my mind up on this issue yet, is whether we need to do the same now to teaching assistants.'
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