Teacher poverty is now so acute that the Victorian charity helping them is running on its reserves
It was winning a national Teaching Award and getting a pay rise in recognition of her outstanding work that, paradoxically, inflicted the final blow to Sarah Wilson’s* finances and put her under threat of homelessness.
Until last winter, thanks to tax credits, the secondary teacher, a single parent, was just about scraping by. But her circumstances took a surprising turn for the worse when she received a £5,000 salary rise from her school, increasing her monthly take-home pay by £300, in recognition of her Teaching Award – the prestigious annual prizes sponsored by Pearson.
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