NASUWT National Executive Member Jane Setchfield highlighted the increasing cycle of debt, low pay and insecure housing facing young teachers at TUC Congress in Brighton today.
She said: “All of the evidence indicates that discrimination against younger teachers has increased as a result of pay flexibilities introduced into the teachers’ pay system by the last Conservative-led Government.
“Ground-breaking research commissioned by the NASUWT demonstrates the extent to which pay is being withheld from young teachers, who are caught in a spiral of high levels of debt, student loans to repay, low pay and high cost housing.
“The NASUWT’s research demonstrates that withholding performance related pay is the mechanism by which many young teachers are being kept on the minimum of the teachers’ main pay range year after year.
“The minimum of the teachers’ pay range is one third lower than the median starting pay for other graduates.”
