Teachers ‘£5,000 a year worse off under Tories’

Study finds 1% pay cap in England and Wales has eroded salaries and is one of major factors in growing recruitment crisisTeachers are now more than £5,000 a year worse off on average in real terms than in 2010 – according to analysis of official data showing the effect of years of pay restraint on the profession.With millions of children returning to school this week after the summer holidays, teaching unions said the marked decline in salaries was one of many factors causing an ever