Residents in a rural Yorkshire village have found tadpoles in their drinking water in a situation branded a "Dickensian scandal" by the local Conservative MP.įormer cabinet minister Sir Simon Clarke said nine homes in his Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency are stuck without a connection to the mains water supply because of the prohibitive costs of even getting a quote for the works. We'll be bringing you updates on the situation throughout the day. The NEU has accused the government of sitting on that pay review body's report, which it believes recommends a 6.5% increase.The decision on teachers' pay in England for next year has been passed to the independent School Teachers' Review Body (STRB).All four education unions involved in the dispute rejected the offer.The government offered teachers a £1,000 one-off payment for the current school year (2022/23) and an average 4.5% rise for staff next year.It is expected that many schools will be either fully closed or have restricted access to certain groups of pupils, as happened on Wednesday.Ministers have been warned that industrial unrest could escalate in the autumn unless there is movement on teachers' salaries.Members of the National Education Union (NEU) in England are taking action today - after strikes also took place on Wednesday.Here's what you need to know about the dispute: Pupils will be forced to stay at home as their teachers walk out, causing thousands of schools to at least partially close their doors. Today is the second day that teachers across England will take to the picket lines in a long fought dispute over pay. Net migration into the UK hit a new record high of 606,000 last year. "We think the plan that we introduced struck the right balance between significantly reducing net migration numbers but also ensuring we can grow our economy." "For his part, he looked at the issue of net migration and introduced the toughest ever action to reduce migration by removing the right for most international students to bring family members. The spokesman said: "I'm not sure he has seen proposals from under a previous prime minister. The Sun said it was former prime minister Liz Truss who had rejected the proposals.ĭowning Street, asked whether Mr Sunak could revisit the measures, said the PM had "introduced the toughest ever action" to curb the numbers of people legally arriving into Britain. It was reported today that the Home Office had drawn up a policy document that suggested ministers could cap entry visas, raise fees and increase salary thresholds in a bid to meet the Conservative 2019 manifesto pledge to reduce overall migration. Rishi Sunak is unaware of Home Office emergency brake proposals on migration, Downing Street has suggested. She added: "Things that we would enjoy as a family, we can't obviously do with both of our wages affected for so long. With three children, Mandy says her family has already scaled back plans for the summer holidays and knows "life will be different at home" if the dispute continues into autumn. "But we just can't afford to both be on strike, despite how I feel inside, and that guilt knowing my colleagues are taking a hit in their wages to help me." "I feel incredibly guilty coming into school today", she told Sky News. They've both joined the picket line in the past but now have to take it in turns.
That's because some teachers here, like Mandy Nicolaou, can no longer afford to strike. Three year groups are absent because of the strike, but it's not as many as during previous walkouts. The hallways and playground are much quieter than usual at St Anne's and Guardian Angels primary school in east London.
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