Temporary jobs have now been offered to all mainstream teachers still without permanent jobs following the Bradford schools shake-up.

But many of the 175 staff, who will be displaced when their schools close in July, feel they have lost out under the re-organisation.

A Bradford Council spokesman said: "These posts will help schools during the transition period over the next 12 months and we have tried to find the most suitable placements for everyone concerned.

"However, if a teacher does not think the suggested placement is suitable we will discuss it further. Staff are continuing to be appointed to permanent posts and our efforts to identify these posts will continue."

Their wages, in the temporary posts, will be paid by the council and not schools. Head teachers will effectively be able to take on extra staff for free.

But all three main teaching unions still say that the teachers, many of whom are approaching 60, should be offered early retirement packages like the heads and deputy heads of their schools.

John Cockshaw, of the Bradford Assoc-iation of Teachers and Lecturers argues that the middle school teachers he represents are some of the main losers in the shake-up.

Mr Cockshaw, a senior teacher at Heaton Middle School, personally faces the prospect of starting at a new school where he fears he may be just an "add-on" - brought in on the cheap, without a proper job.

"There is a great loss of self-esteem," he said. "We are virtually at the bottom of the heap again."

Bradford Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, Ian Murch, said: "This doesn't solve the long-term problem for many of these people. There are a significant number who are still unhappy about where they are going."

As reported in last night's Telegraph and Argus, more than 50 language support teachers have not been offered the same 'no redundancy' agreement and still don't know if they will have jobs to go to in September.

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