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PDF 85 Feb 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay (England and Wales)") [Burnham Primary & Secondary Committee and Further Education Committee negotiations: maximum Government offers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Teachers' Pay (England and Wales)") [Burnham Primary & Secondary Committee and Further Education Committee negotiations: maximum Government offers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Scottish Teachers Dispute") [advice against Younger proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Feb 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to George Younger ("Scottish Teachers") [rejects Younger proposal for grant scheme to enable parents to teach children affected by strikes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to Andrew Turnbull ("Scottish Teachers' Pay") [advice against Younger's latest proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 6 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Biffen letter to Younger ("Industrial Action by Scottish Teachers") [rules out classifying the action as a breach of Parliamentary privilege] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 8 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Rees PS letter to Keith Joseph (controlling public expenditure: teachers' pay recommendations) [request for Treasury concerns to be taken into account in Keith Joseph/Younger's joint paper] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 20 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Whitelaw letter to Keith Joseph ("Teachers' Pay: Briefing and Publicity") [circulation of updates on UK-wide industrial disputes & pay negotiations to Ministers & backbenchers] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 26 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("School Teachers") ["The attached report from George Younger and me is our response to the Cabinet remit of 28 February": pay & other recommendations in response to industrial disputes] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 27 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to Whitelaw PS ("Teachers' Pay: Briefing and Publicity") [latest position on industrial action & negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit briefing for MT ("Teachers' Pay") [1985 negotiations; contractual duties; reform of salary structure; recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Patrick Jenkin minute to MT ("School Teachers") [pay neogtiations: Keith Joseph/Younger proposals: concerns regard precedent-setting and Rate Support Grant settlement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Mar 29 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Biffen minute to MT ("Industrial Action by Teachers - Privilege") [assessment of Government's prospects of success in referring Scottish teachers' industrial action to Committee of Privileges; alternative options] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Schoolteachers") [rejects Keith Joseph/George Younger joint proposals for performance-related pay; wider public sector context; diversion of public expenditure savings; pay negotiations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 1 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Teachers") [pay negotiations; countermeasures against ongoing industrial dispute; Government legal complaint of privilege against teachers in Scotland; teaching standards] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Keith Joseph, Patrick Jenkin, Tom King, Younger, Edwards, Biffen, Michael Havers, Nicholas Scott) ["School Teachers": pay; teaching standards; industrial disruption; contracts & conditions of service] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("School Teachers") [pay negotiations/contracts & conditions of service: summary of Keith Joseph proposals; options; recommendations] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("School Teachers") [pay negotiations/industrial disruption; teaching standards assessment/contracts & conditions of service] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Younger minute to MT ("School Teachers") [pay negotiations: "the longer-term problem in Scotland is different in some important respects"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Apr 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Teachers") [pay negotiations/performance standards; action against selective strikes; difference between Younger and Keith Joseph priorities] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 1 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Keith Joseph, George Younger, Patrick Jenkin, Tom King, Biffen, Edwards, Hurd, Michael Havers) ["School Teachers": linking performance standards to pay scales; pressurising local authorities to comply with Government objectives; Scotland; punitive measures for public service strike disruption] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 2 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay Negotiations 1985") [pay offer; arbitration] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Teachers' Pay (England and Wales)") ["we should make it absolutely clear... that 5 per cent is the final sticking point for the Government"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 14 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("School Teachers") ["I attach two notes prepared in response to the conclusions reached at your meeting on 1 May": contracts of employment; Local Education Authorities & Government objectives] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("School Teachers") [suggested amendments to Keith Joseph proposals] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("School Teachers") [pay negotiations: proposed public statement to leaders of local authority employers regarding additional financial resources for 86-87 linked to teachers' responsibilities & performance standards] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 17 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("School Teachers") [pay negotiations: proposed additional financial resources for 86-87 linked to teachers' responsibilities & performance standards; proposed specific education grant from 87-88 onwards conditional on cooperation with Government objectives; proposed pay increases for 85-86] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Keith Joseph, Patrick Jenkin, Tom King, Younger, Edwards, Michael Havers, Nicholas Scott) [standards in schools; pay negotiations: 85-86 & 86-87; legislation to curb powers of Local Education Authorities; scale of pay increases; additional financial resources; teachers' duties] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 20 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Lawson, Keith Joseph, Patrick Jenkin, Tom King, Younger, Edwards, Nicholas Scott, Allan Stewart, Oliver Letwin) ["Teachers' Pay": discussion of Joseph proposal "to make more money available in 1986-87 in return for agreement on appraisal and on managing the teaching force"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to Keith Joseph PS ("Teachers' Pay: Draft Letter to Mr Merridale and Mrs Harrison") [Lawson's requested amendments; emphasises no additional funds will be available in 1986-87 to finance this year's settlement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chancellor of the Exchequer ("Teachers' Pay: E & W") [Burnham Committee pay negotiations: "we need to decide how... [our maximum offer of 5.5%] should be applied in the case of a staged or delayed offer"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 21 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Chairman of the Association of County Councils (Burnham Primary & Secondary Committee: Teachers' Pay Negotiations) [clarification of Government position on teachers' duties/contracts of employment as a basis for 1986-87 negotiations; additional resources from Rate Support Grant settlement] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 May 23 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Teachers (England and Wales)") ["I must ask you to veto any offer, staged or not, which would increase the rates of teachers' salaries by more than 5.5 per cent"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph PS letter to No.10 ("Teachers' Pay") [additional resources 1986-87] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw ("Teachers' Pay Dispute") [revised brief for Ministers' use; public support for Government's objectives] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jun 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Hurd letter to Keith Joseph letter ("Northern Ireland Teachers Pay") [proposed pay award on condition of withdrawal of industrial action] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer letter to Keith Joseph ("Teachers' Pay (E&W)") [Government's position for forthcoming Burnham Committee meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 2 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Burnham Primary & Secondary Committee Teachers' Panel (additional resources for 1986/87) [Government's position for forthcoming Burnham Committee meetings] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Andrew Turnbull minute to MT (Teachers' Pay Dispute) [MT approves Keith Joseph's proposed offer, subject to clearance with Treasury] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 8 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Teachers' Pay") [latest developments] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 12 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Teachers' Pay") [support's Keith Joseph's position; views on likely length of industrial dispute; additional finance, 1986-87] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 24 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph letter to Whitelaw ("Teachers' Pay Dispute") [new fortnightly bulletin of updates; first copy attached] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 26 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: George Younger minute to MT ("Scottish Teachers' Pay and Conditions of Service") ["to report the outcome of exchanges which I have been having with the Scottish education authorities in an effort to resolve the dispute"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 29 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Keith Joseph minute to MT ("Teachers' Pay Negotiations, England and Wales") ["main features of the current position"] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 30 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("Teachers' Pay") ["Both the English and the Scottish proposals are unattractive": details; advice] [declassified Dec 2014]
PDF 85 Jul 31 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Education: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("Teachers") [pay & conditions of employment in Scotland and in England & Wales, respectively - "necessary to make sure that the approach... is consistent"] [declassified Dec 2014]
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