The teachers strikes across Hertfordshire will begin tomorrow and continue on various days throughout February and March.

Teachers from the National Education Union (NEU) start their strikes tomorrow, on Wednesday, February 1. 

The NEU is taking strike action for a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise.

Schools in Hertfordshire will be affected by the strikes on Wednesday, February 1, Wednesday, March 1, Wednesday, March 15, and Thursday, March 16.

Of teachers in England, 90.44 per cent of members taking part in the ballot voted YES to taking industrial action on a turnout of 53.27 per cent.

The ballot result of support staff saw 84 per cent of members vote YES on a turnout of 46.46 per cent.

This result, despite being hugely in favour of action, just missed the Government's restrictive thresholds.

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You can find out if the educators at the school your child attends or one in your area will be going on strike using this interactive strike map: https://neu.org.uk/strike-map-0.

The union has declared seven days of strike action across February and March but any individual school will only be affected by four of them.

In total 23,400 schools will be hit across England and Wales.

Hertfordshire County Council commented: "We don’t have an accurate picture of which schools will be affected, as teachers don’t have to inform their school in advance that they will be striking, and many schools are academies and don’t have to inform us.

"We expect most schools to be affected, but that relatively few will be completely closed.

"The most accurate source of information will be schools’ own websites.

"We hope that the dispute between the NEU and the government can be resolved as soon as possible to avoid disrupting young people’s education."

Dr Mary Bousted and Kevin Courtney, Joint General Secretaries of the National Education Union, said: "We have continually raised our concerns with successive education secretaries about teacher and support staff pay and its funding in schools and colleges, but instead of seeking to resolve the issue they have sat on their hands.

"It is disappointing that the Government prefers to talk about yet more draconian anti-strike legislation, rather than work with us to address the causes of strike action."