School Teachers’ Review Body (STRB)

The STRB is one of a number of independent pay review bodies established to advise Ministers on matters in respect of specific workforces. The STRB considers matters referred to it by the Secretary of State for Education in relation to the pay, professional duties or working time of school teachers in maintained schools in England and Wales.

Further details on the STRB, its role and recent remits are available.

Current STRB remit

The Government has laid before Parliament the independent STRB's 21st Report and its response to that report. Both the report and Government response are online.

The Secretary of State issued a further remit letter on 17 January 2013, asking the STRB for their recommendations on how to apply the 2013 pay award for teachers.

Public sector workers have been subject to a two-year pay freeze, which for teachers began in September 2011. As first announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Autumn Statement in November 2011, the Government’s policy is for public sector pay awards to average 1 per cent in each of the two years following the pay freeze. The Secretary of State is therefore seeking recommendations on how the average 1 per cent pay uplift should be applied for teachers in 2013, and has asked the STRB to submit their report by 31 May 2013.

In particular the Secretary of State has asked the STRB to consider:

  • What adjustments should be made to the salary scales for classroom teachers and unqualified teachers to reflect the average 1 per cent pay award for public sector workers;
  • How the average 1 per cent pay award should apply to the leadership pay scales; and
  • How the average 1 per cent pay award should apply to teacher allowances.

The full remit letter is available online.

Previous years’ reports and accompanying documents are available on the National Archive website.