Education and young people

School teachers' pay 2025

The school teachers' pay 2025 page brings together all the information you will need in relation to school teachers’ pay in 2025/26. The LGA provides the secretariat for NEOST (National Employers Organisation for School Teachers).

School teachers’ pay 2024

View all the available school teachers' pay 2024 documentation

JNCTRE agreement 2023

Under the terms of the JNCTRE Agreement, all allowances (including Instructors scales) other than the Sleeping in Duty Allowance have been increased (6 December 2023).

Soulbury Pay 2022 and 2023

Soulbury Pay 2022 and 2023: The National Employers have made a full and final offer to the Officers’ Side in response to the Officers’ Side’s pay and conditions claim for 2022 and a final pay offer for 2023 – 22 November 2023.

School teachers' pay and conditions FAQs

A bank of frequently asked questions about teachers’ national pay and conditions framework.

What school leaders and those governing should expect from each other

Read this updated guidance produced by a collaboration of leading education sector organisations aims to improve the effectiveness of governance.

NEOST staff wellbeing guide for schools and trusts - 16 June 2020

This NEOST staff wellbeing guide - whilst this guide was produced during the COVID-19 Pandemic it continues to provide schools and trusts with information and guidance as well as signposting to other resources to best support the wellbeing of their staff.

In this section:

School teachers

We advise the National Employers' Organisation for School Teachers, which represents children's services authorities and local education authorities in England and Wales.

Soulbury officers

We act as the Secretariat for the Employers' Side of the Soulbury Committee.

Youth and community workers

We act as the Secretariat for the Employers' Side of the JNC for Youth and Community Workers (YCW).

Annual leave for term-time only employees

Guidance on the accrual of annual leave during maternity leave for term-time only employees.

National Employers' Organisation for School Teachers (NEOST)

NEOST is the statutory recognised national employer representative body for school teachers. The LGA provides the Secretariat to NEOST, which represents education authorities and other employers of school teachers in maintained schools in England and Wales.ales.