The government's proposals for teachers' pay have met with a mixed response from unions and local government employers.
Teachers have no cause for celebration.
And the union's general secretary, Peter Smith, warned that local authorities should not seek to fund the pay rises with redundancies. But the education spokesman for the Local Government Association, Graham Lane, has claimed that the pay rise could only be implemented with savings elsewhere - such as cutting support for the government's literacy campaign. Falling behind' The leader of the second-largest teachers' union, Nigel de Gruchy of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, said the pay deal still left teachers' salaries falling behind comparable professions. Every government is the same. They all want a Rolls-Royce education service powered by a Mini Metro engine.