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Teacher pay deals: Givan hopes to finalise deal ‘within days’

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Teachers in England received a 5.5% pay rise for 2024-25 from the government in September.

Despite the fact that it is more than halfway through the 2024-25 financial year, no pay deal for teachers in Northern Ireland has yet been agreed.

Speaking on Friday, Givan said there was “a different negotiating framework here in Northern Ireland”, which is “not part of a UK-wide process”.

“I’ve had to try to identify funding, which has been really difficult given the pressures that exist within my department, to try and get the funding I need this year,” he added.

“That will be, I trust, resolved soon.”

The teaching unions in Northern Ireland accepted a previous pay deal in March 2024, but that was a backdated covering the years from 2021 to 2024.

In December, Givan said that giving teachers in Northern Ireland the 13.5% pay rise unions had asked for for 2024-25 was “simply impossible.”


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