Teaching unions in England begin talks with government as strikes paused

Discussions to focus on teacher pay, conditions and workload reduction, amid two-week ‘period of calm’Intensive negotiations between the government and teaching unions in England are under way, holding out the possibility of a deal over teachers’ pay after a damaging series of strikes.The talks between the teaching union leaders and Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, started on Friday and are expected to continue over the weekend, in a sign of the government’s willi