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Pensions latest: ATL accepts offer

ATL's Executive Committee has accepted the government's final offer for the Teachers' Pension Scheme (TPS) at its meeting on Saturday 28 January. The decision to accept the deal comes after a poll of members showed 91.6% of respondents support acceptance of the final offer.

ATL members in Northern Ireland and Scotland also took part in the poll as changes to the TPS will very likely be implemented in NITSS and STSS, with 89.2% and 100% of members respectively backing acceptance of the offer.

ATL president, Alice Robinson, said: "ATL members are realists. They recognise how tough times are and that the government is determined not to give any further ground. Although the government's final offer does not give us everything we wanted, it is the best deal we could get in the current economic climate. And members do not want a significantly worse deal imposed on them if they rejected this one."

You can find out more about the improved offer, and ATL's view:

• Details of the improved offer - statement from Mary Bousted

• Detailed FAQs on the offer.

• ATL's pension modeller - estimate how the changes might affect you.

• Example case studies under the latest proposals.

Pensions poll

ATL's pensions poll closed at noon on 27 January 2012.

The poll was only open to ATL members eligible to be in the TPS in maintained and independent schools and colleges in England and Wales or in the NITSS in Northern Ireland or in the STSS in Scotland.

The poll was not open to supply teacher members, members in other independent schools, overseas teachers, unattached teachers, retired teachers and members not employed as teachers and not eligible for the TPS, NITSS or STSS - eg support staff and Soulbury paid members.