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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jane Dalton

Schools on brink of ‘full-blown funding crisis’, teachers warn

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Schools have been put on the brink of a full-blown funding crisis by the latest teachers’ pay award, unions claim.

Teachers’ leaders say the pay rise of 5 per cent announced this week will worsen a shortage of staff after a pay freeze in the last financial year and “pay erosion since 2010”.

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