a record low. and in the australian open, andy murray beats italian matteo berrettini in a thrilling five set first round match. hello and welcome to the programme. social media bosses could face jail if they repeatedly fail to protect children from online harm, under new changes to the online safety bill. the prime minister rishi sunak agreed to calls for tougher punishments as part of the legislation after his own backbench mps prepared to vote against the bill. the new legislation begins its final stages in the house of commons today but lucy powell, labour s shadow secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport, says the bill doesn t go far enough. we would go further in terms of the measures that take buses would be accountable for so we are notjust looking up the narrow issue of directly causing harm to children which is what really the bill has been massively scaled back to focus on measures that tech buses would be accountable for. so things like viral mi
education specifically, is the issue fundamentally resources, by which i mean it is striking to hear teachers saying, i have had a small pay rise over the last few years, but that pay rise has come out of the existing school budget. so it is not fully funded. and that phrase, fully funded, keeps coming back. is that an issue? if you were in government, would you be trying to find the money to put more into the sector? yes, the government will say they have recently increased the schools budget by a bit. but for every pound that goes into teaching pay, that money is not available for other parts of the education budget. so it is understandable that when the government thinks of the proposal to give teacher pay rise above inflation this year, they point out that that would be really difficult to accommodate within the education and schools budget without cutting other services. the government is in a mess with its finances at the
one simple reason, which is that i think both the teaching unions and teachers and the government feel that they have got separate and competing arguments for taking the position is that they have. the teaching unions point to the fact that real teaching pay has declined by over 10% over the last decade and it is at such a level that we are struggling to recruit good teachers, particularly into secondary schools at the moment. the government is pointing out, as you mention, that this is a higher pay increase than normal, that it is short of money and that if it increases pay for teachers, it will have to do so for all sorts of public sector workers. so this has all the hallmarks of a dispute that if we are not careful could drag on for a long time and damage young people s recovery from the pandemic. in damage young people s recovery from the pandemic the pandemic. in relation to education the pandemic. in relation to education specifically, - the pandemic. in relation to educatio
educational research which confirmed that teaching pay has shown a precipitous decline in relation to other graduate professions. that is really bad because you need thousands and thousands of graduates to become teachers each yearjust to keep the teaching workforce at minimum levels and we are failing to achieve that. we need a playwright this year but we also need a long term correction in teachers pat’- long term correction in teachers pay. t long-term correction in teachers .a ., , long-term correction in teachers pay. i really appreciate you taking the time to pay. i really appreciate you taking the time to speak pay. i really appreciate you taking the time to speak to pay. i really appreciate you taking the time to speak to us, - pay. i really appreciate you taking the time to speak to us, dr - pay. i really appreciate you taking the time to speak to us, dr mary | the time to speak to us, dr mary bousted, thank you. two new nurses strikes are also planned for next