Teachers' pay should be set for two years, not one, in order to give schools more time to plan their budgets, headteachers said yesterday.
The late arrival of information on staff costs was one of the drivers of this year's finance row, which saw teachers made redundant by heads struggling to balance their books, said the National Association of Head Teachers.
Friday July 11, 2003
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