Teachers are set to join in on the largest day of industrial action for over a decade on Wednesday with walkouts planned across the country.
Last-minute talks will be held on Monday in a bid to resolve a teachers' pay dispute ahead of planned strikes this week.
Members of the National Education Union in England and Wales are due to walk out on Wednesday, with more industrial action planned in the following weeks.Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the NEU, said:"This is the last chance to avoid the"However, on Friday the Department for Education failed to meet the deadline to its evidence to the teachers' pay review body.
"We can only assume this is because they know that their recommended increase for teachers' pay will not be acceptable to our members and will contradict the evidence they must have put in about teacher recruitment and retention difficulties. "That said, we hope the secretary of state will bring forward concrete proposals to end this dispute and avert the strike action."
A source close to the education secretary said she will use the meeting to reiterate her call from over the weekend for teachers to inform schools if they plan to strike.The source added the government will"continue to be open and collaborative in meetings with the unions".
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