Appendix D - Employer Link MAT results - September 2023

Employer Link MAT results

TOTAL NUMBER OF RESPONSES TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION 20
APPENDIX 1 List of responding organisations

Questions 1 - 3 asked respondents for their name, organisation and email addresses. 

Affordabillity

Q4 Broadly speaking, do you welcome these recommendations for the 23/24 teachers’ pay award.
Yes 18 responses (90%)
No 1 response (5%)
Don’t Know 1 response (5%)

 

Q5  This pay award assumes a 6.5% increase to the teacher paybill, with an estimated 3% additional funding from DfE. Is this largely manageable within existing budgets for the majority of your schools?
Yes   13 responses (65%)
No 6 responses (30%)
Don’t Know 1 response (5%)

 

Q6 How will your schools manage the cost of this pay award? Please indicate which of the following scenarios most closely applies? (Answer with the majority of schools represented in mind.)
Schools budgeted for this scenario, so is manageable 4 responses (20%)
Some reasonable adjustments to existing budgets required (without impacting curriculum/services jobs) 10 responses (50%)
Significant adjustments to budgets are required, which may impact existing curriculum/services/jobs. 5 responses (25%)
Left Blank 1 responses (5%)

 

Q7 Do you expect schools in your authority or trust to be applying (when details are known) for access to the £40m funds available for individual schools facing the most difficult financial services.
Yes – most of our schools 0 responses (0%)
Yes – a significant number of schools 1 response (5%)
Yes – a few schools 3 responses (15%)
No, none of our schools 11 responses (55%)
Don’t know 5 responses (25%)

 

Q8 Not withstanding affordability challenges, will this anticipated pay award for experienced teachers and leaders support better retention rates within schools?
Yes   6 responses (30%)
No 4 responses (20%)
Don’t Know 10 responses (50%)

 

Q9 What will be the impact of all funding demands so taking into account the teachers’ pay award, the potential support staff pay award (adding £1925 or 3.88% for points above the NJC pay spine if agreed), predicted rates of inflation e.g. energy and food costs, etc – what is the average projected affordability gap for your schools.
0% 0 responses (0%)
0.1 – 1% 1 response (5%)
1.1 – 2% 3 responses (15%)
2.1 – 3% 4 responses (20%)
3.1 – 4% 2 responses (10%)
4.1 – 5% 2 responses (10%)
More than 5% 2 responses (10%)
Don’t know 6 responses (30%)

 

Q10 Rank them in order with 1 likely to have the biggest challenge.

Q10 Within your area, which types of schools, do you think are likely to have the biggest challenge (financially) in implementing this pay award?
  1 2 3 4 5
Primary schools 11 responses  (69%) 4 responses  (25%) 1   response  (6%) 0 responses
(0%)		 0 responses
(0%)
Secondary schools 3 responses  (18%) 7 responses  (41%) 4 responses  (24%) 1 response
(6%)		 2 Responses
(12%)
Special schools 2 responses  (40%) 2 responses  (40%) 0 responses  (0%) 0 responses
(0%)		 1 responses
(20%)
PRUs 0 responses  (0%) 1 response  (25%) 1   response  (25%) 0 responses
(0%)		 2 response
(50%)
Smaller schools 4 responses  (50%) 2 responses  (25%) 1   response  (14%) 0 responses
(0%)		 1 response
(13%)
Other e.g Middle Schools 1   response  (20%) 0 responses  (0%) 1   response  (20%) 3 responses
(60%)		 0 responses
(0%)

 

Q11 Rank them in order with 1 likely to have the biggest challenge.

Q11 Within your area, which geographical locations, do you think are likely to have the biggest challenge (financially) in implementing this pay award? 
  1 2 3 4 5
Coastal Towns 1 response (17%) 1 response (17%) 4 responses (67%) 0 responses (0%) 0 responses (0%)
Rural Schools 4 responses (44%) 4 responses (44%) 0 responses (0%) 1 response 11%) 0 responses (0%)
Inner City Provision 1 response (13%) 4 responses (50%) 0 responses (0%) 3 responses (38%) 0 responses (0%)
Areas of Deprivation 7 responses (70%) 2 responses (20%) 0 responses (0%) 1 response (10%) 0 responses (0%)
Other 1 response (20%) 0 responses (0%) 0 responses (0%) 0 responses (0%) 4 responses (4%)

 

Q12 Do you consider that the lower increase to M1 in London and the Fringe area will have a negative impact over the longer term?
Yes   0 responses (0 %)
No 2 responses (10 %)
Don’t know 2 responses (10 %)
N/A – not a London/Fringe area employer 16 responses (80 %)
Left Blank 0 responses (XX %)

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