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I am pleased to announce today there will be an uplift of pay to reward our highly skilled and hardworking teachers in Wales.


I announced on 29 July that subject to consultation with key stakeholders I agreed in principle to accept all of the Independent Welsh Pay Review Body’s recommendations for 2020/21, and to go beyond their recommendations in some areas; introducing a pay award from 1 September 2020 to provide for:


1. a 8\.48% uplift to the minimum of the teacher main pay scale;
2. a 3\.75% uplift to the statutory maxima of the main pay scale;
3. a 2\.75% uplift to the statutory minima and maxima of the upper pay scale;
4. a 2\.75% uplift to the statutory minima and maxima of the leading practitioner pay range, the unqualified teachers’ pay scale, the leadership pay scale (including headteacher groups) and all allowances across all pay ranges;
5. statutory national pay scales for all pay points on the teacher main pay scale, teacher upper pay scale, unqualified teachers’ pay scale and leadership pay scale;
6. in accordance with their own pay policies, schools ensuring a 2\.75% uplift across interim pay points of the leading practitioner pay range and teacher allowances to match the uplift to the national framework in making individual pay progression decisions.


I have now considered the responses to that consultation and can confirm that nothing has emerged that warrants reconsideration of the proposed pay award for teachers for 2020/21\.


Consequently, I have made the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions (Wales) Order 2020 which gives effect to the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions (Wales) Document 2020\.


The pay award will be backdated to 1 September 2020\.


Today’s announcement shows the benefit and continuation of the Welsh Government gaining responsibility for these powers. In setting teachers’ pay for the second time, we have continued to diverge from the proposals in England by awarding teachers in Wales higher starting pay and introducing some key changes requested by the profession such as experience based pay progression and national statutory pay scales. This will help to promote teaching as a profession of choice for graduates and career changers. Alongside our reforms to professional learning, the curriculum and initial teacher training, it will help to encourage the highest quality teachers to join the profession here in Wales.


We recognise that teachers’ pay is a significant element of schools’ and local authorities’ budgets. It was anticipated that the increased costs of this pay award would be met from the increase in funding allocated to local authorities from Welsh Government via the Revenue Support Grant, combined with provision from local authorities’ own revenue raising powers. However, in light of the pandemic, we are also well aware of the many competing pressures on budgets. Therefore, following discussions with local government, we will provide a total of £5\.538 million in support of the cost of the pay award in this financial year. This includes £3\.981 million which is in addition to the funding already provided to local authorities through the local government settlement, for years nursery to year 11, and a further £1\.556 million to recognise the full increase in the post\-16 allocation.


In announcing this Teachers’ Pay award, I note that negotiations between Further Education colleges and unions are ongoing. The Welsh Government has a long standing commitment to pay parity and a further announcement will be made in due course.







Translation:


 
Rwy’n falch o gyhoeddi heddiw  ein bod am wobrwyo ein hathrawon medrus a gweithgar yng Nghymru drwy godi eu cyflog.


Cyhoeddais ar 29 Gorffennaf fy mod, yn amodol ar ymgynghori â rhanddeiliaid allweddol, yn cytuno mewn egwyddor i dderbyn pob un o argymhellion Corff Cyflogau Annibynnol Cymru ar gyfer 2020/21, ac i wneud mwy na hynny mewn rhai meysydd, gan gyflwyno dyfarniad cyflog o 1 Medi 2020 i ddarparu ar gyfer:


1. cynnydd o 8\.48% i isafswm prif raddfa gyflog athrawon;
2. cynnydd o 3\.75% i uchafswm statudol y brif raddfa gyflog;
3. cynnydd o 2\.75% i uchafswm ac isafswm statudol y raddfa gyflog uwch;
4. cynnydd o 2\.75% i uchafswm ac isafswm statudol ystod cyflog ymarferwyr arweiniol, graddfa gyflog athrawon heb gymhwyso a’r raddfa gyflog arweinyddiaeth (gan gynnwys grwpiau penaethiaid) a phob lwfans ar draws yr holl ystodau cyflog;
5. graddfeydd cyflog cenedlaethol statudol ar gyfer pob pwynt cyflog ar brif raddfa cyflog athrawon, y raddfa gyflog uwch i athrawon, graddfa gyflog athrawon heb gymhwyso a’r raddfa gyflog arweinyddiaeth;
6. yn unol â'u polisïau cyflog eu hunain, sicrhau cynnydd o 2\.75% ar draws y pwyntiau cyflog interim yn ystod gyflogau ymarferwyr arweiniol a lwfansau athrawon mewn ysgolion i gyfateb i'r cynnydd yn y fframwaith cenedlaethol wrth wneud penderfyniadau ynghylch codi cyflog.


Rwyf bellach wedi ystyried yr ymatebion i'r ymgynghoriad hwnnw a gallaf gadarnhau nad oes dim wedi dod i'r amlwg sy'n gwarantu ailystyried y dyfarniad cyflog arfaethedig i athrawon ar gyfer 2020/21\.


Felly, rydwyf wedi gwneud Gorchymyn Cyflog ac Amodau Athrawon Ysgol (Cymru) 2020 a fydd yn rhoi effaith i Ddogfen Cyflog ac Amodau Athrawon Ysgol (Cymru) 2020\.


Bydd y dyfarniad cyflog yn ôl\-weithredol i 1 Medi 2020\.


Dengys y cyhoeddiad heddiw y mantais o roi’r cyfrifoldeb i Lywodraeth Cymru am y pwerau hyn, a bod hynny’n parhau. Wrth bennu cyflog athrawon am yr eildro, rydym wedi parhau i ddilyn trywydd gwahanol i’r cynigion yn Lloegr, drwy roi cyflog cychwynnol uwch i athrawon yng Nghymru a chyflwyno rhai o’r prif newidiadau y gofynnwyd amdanynt gan y proffesiwn, megis dilyniant cyflog ar sail profiad a graddfeydd cyflog statudol cenedlaethol. Bydd hyn yn help i hyrwyddo addysgu fel proffesiwn y mae graddedigion a’r rhai sy’n dymuno newid gyrfa am ei ddewis. Ochr yn ochr â’n ddiwygiadau i ddysgu proffesiynol, y cwricwlwm a hyfforddiant cychwynnol athrawon, bydd yn helpu i annog athrawon o’r safon uchaf i ymuno â’r proffesiwn yma yng Nghymru.


Rydym yn cydnabod bod cyflogau athrawon yn rhan sylweddol o gyllidebau ysgolion ac awdurdodau lleol. Rhagwelwyd y byddai’r cynnydd mewn costau yn sgil y dyfarniad hwn yn dod o’r cynnydd yn y cyllid a roddwyd i awdurdodau lleol gan Lywodraeth Cymru drwy’r Grant Cynnal Refeniw, ynghyd â’r ddarpariaeth o bwerau codi refeniw yr awdurdodau lleol eu hunain. Fodd bynnag, yn sgil y pandemig, rydym hefyd yn ymwybodol iawn o’r pwysau o wahanol gyfeiriadau ar gyllidebau. Oherwydd hynny, yn dilyn trafodaethau â llywodraeth leol, byddwn yn darparu cyfanswm o £5\.538miliwn i gefnogi’r dyfarniad cyflog yn y flwyddyn ariannol hon. Mae hyn yn cynnwys £3\.981miliwn sy’n ychwanegol i’r cyllid a ddarparwyd i awdurdodau lleol yn barod trwy’r setliad llywodraeth lleol, ar gyfer blynyddoedd meithrin i blwyddyn 11, a £1\.556miliwn arall i gydnabod y cynnydd llawn yn y dyraniad ôl\-16\.


Wrth gyhoeddi'r dyfarniad Cyflog Athrawon hwn, nodaf fod trafodaethau rhwng colegau Addysg Bellach ac undebau yn parhau.  Mae gan Lywodraeth Cymru ymrwymiad hir\-sefydlog i dalu cyflog cyfartal, a bydd cyhoeddiad pellach yn cael ei wneud yn y man.