内容摘要："Or if they say we have to be ending gigs at 10, for example, we will lose a big chunk of our income.

"Or if they say we have to be ending gigs at 10, for example, we will lose a big chunk of our income.

Because education and health are devolved, the health and education departments set budgets for spending in England only. The teachers' pay review body makes recommendations for England only but the NHS pay review body covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Public sector pay is set through a separate process in Scotland.The recommendation of an above-inflation pay rise for teachers is likely to be because of ongoing concerns about staff recruitment and retention in schools.

These have been raised in previous pay recommendations.(IFS) show that, despite the 5.5% average cash pay rise teachers received in 2024-25, the average pay of most teachers in that year - when adjusted for inflation - was still lower than than it was back in 2010.In the case of the most experienced teachers, pay was 9% lower than it was 15 years ago in real terms.

Official government data also shows widening gaps between the recruitment figures for teachers in specific subjects and their recruitment targets.Just 17% of the target for secondary school physics teacher recruitment was achieved in 2023-24, down from 42% in 2019-20.

Overall teacher recruitment was 62% of the target, down from 87% in 2019-20

We do not know what all the individual pay recommendations from the review bodies will be, but Verify has done some calculations that give a rough sense of the potential impact."We're going to focus on having postcards in there for people to just write a quick message, but it's for any kind of writing.

"So far, everyone I've spoken to has an idea of their own for it - it's really sparked people's imaginations."Further Writing Box sessions will be held on 30 May, 13 June and 20 June, from 10:00 to 16:00 BST.

Author Sir Salman Rushdie has said he is "pleased" the man who tried to kill him in a knife attack in 2022 has received the maximum possible prison sentence.earlier this month for attempted murder after repeatedly stabbing Sir Salman on a New York lecture stage.