Teachers: Pay
Commons · Question 35822 · Tabled 5 Mar 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 22 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Pippa Heylings
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the level of teacher salaries on staff retention in (a) Cambridge and (b) other areas with high living costs.
Answer
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 22 Mar 2025
High quality teaching is the within school factor that makes the biggest difference to children’s outcomes which is why this government is determined tackle staff recruitment and retention challenges, making work pay and support teachers to stay in the pr...