Schools are sent there by one. but if you go to west wales to ceredigion, they are all open over there with only eight schools with a couple of classrooms and a couple of people having to spend time. so it s a really varied picture. the education minister here has offered one off pay deal to the unions. that has been flatly rejected. they want a consolidated pay rise but at the moment, it is impossible to see how thatis moment, it is impossible to see how that is going to happen because the welsh government say they haven t got the money to fund that fully. they need more money from westminster to do so and they are not prepared to raise as they have to fund any pay rises at the moment. it looks like there will be more strikes on the way, because i can t see how this is going to be resolved any time soon. teachers in scotland have already been on strike in recent weeks. 0ur correspondent ben philip is in aberdeen for us and has the latest on any sign of a possible breakthrough there. t
Government will be determined not to give too much ground this year. but they have to accept that public sector workers collectively have had a difficult deal over the last decade and if we don t start to turn that around, we are going to have recruitment problems notjust in schools and hospitals and other parts of the public sector which will be difficult to deal with. ultimately, the government will have to give some ground too, but they will want to try to make those concessions in the next pay settlement and the one that comes after. and it is always much more difficult for unions to settle for a promise of something in the future. that is why this dispute is really difficult and why we have to work hard between all the different parties to try and put young people s interests at the centre of this, otherwise we are going to delay the recovery of young people s learning from the pandemic even further. ., , .,
The head is determined that those not in school won t fall behind. we ll ensure that the children do catch up, and this is not easy, but those children will be given extra tuition. this is what we re fighting for, we want extra staff within the schools. we re possibly looking at deficit budgets next year. that could result in losing many extra staff. if you ve got a capital 0, - have you got it right or wrong? last year, most teachers were given a 5% pay rise, but many schools paid for it out of the existing school budget. the national education union wants a fully funded, above inflation pay rise. the thing that s driving our members is the state of crisis that s in many schools that there are gcse chemistry classes, gcse maths classes being taught by people who don t have qualifications in chemistry and maths, that there are primary classrooms where we can t get permanent staff. and we think that s rooted, partly, in funding of schools and the funding of pay for people to work in t
Rise two years in a row, saying that too many conditions were attached. as we go on, inflation gets higher and higher and higher, and the ability then to do a deal with high inflation and high cost of living, when everybody wants to take everything you ve got and give you nothing for it is a very difficult place to be in. ultimately, the government holds the purse strings and has to approve any offer that s made. a spokesperson said ministers continued to facilitate reasonable conversations between unions and employers. the group representing train companies in the negotiations insisted they and the union needed to keep trying to find common ground. we want to emphasise the need for us to give our staff a pay increase, but we cannot afford that without having the levels of reform that can try and stop us having to take additionalfunding from the taxpayer, particularly in this challenging time. the industry hopes to arrange fresh talks next week. without a breakthrough,