Nursery World - Teachers strike to go ahead after education secretary 'squandered an opportunity' to avoid action

Teachers in the National Education Union will go on strike tomorrow (1 February) after talks with the DfE over improved pay or funding failed.

A poll found 14 per cent of schools are planning to close to all pupils on the first day of strike action by teachers on 1 February 2023, PHOTO: Adobe Stock

Following a meeting with the education secretary Gillian Keegan yesterday (30 January) afternoon, where last-ditch attempts to halt tomorrow’s first walk-out failed, union leaders said that Keegan had ’squandered an opportunity’ to avoid strike action.

The news comes as a new poll of 8,200 teachers, undertaken by daily surveying app, Teacher Tapp on Sunday, suggests that 14 per cent of schools are planning to close to all pupils, while 44 per cent of teachers said their school would close ‘for some pupils’.

London schools are most likely to disrupted, the poll found, with 23 per cent of teachers saying their schools would close for all pupils.

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