Responding to the education secretary Bridget Phillipson's confirmation this afternoon in a live sector webinar that the School Teachers Review Body (STRB) report recommending teacher pay for 2024/25 won’t be published before the summer holidays, Paul Whiteman, general secretary of the school leaders’ union, NAHT said:

"We look forward to engaging positively with the new government on this year's pay award when it is ready later this year. We had asked that the STRB recommendations were published prior to the election and understand this has impacted timings.

“The delay to funding allocations will also cause difficulties for already stretched schools. However, we recognise the need to take sufficient time to determine how to fund and restore real terms pay in order to once again make teaching an attractive and compelling graduate career option that retains teachers and leaders for the long term."