A rise in pay for teachers has been agreed but more detail is awaited on how associated pension increases will be covered, Ceredigion councillors have been told.

Ceredigion County Council held its full council meeting and approved a regional model teachers’ pay policy which includes pay rises ranging from 1.5 per cent to 3.5 per cent.

Deputy leader Cllr Ray Quant told members that is was a national policy and representations were being made by Welsh Government to Westminster to “bridge” funding gaps.

A report to council states that the pay increases would be within budget.

Cllr Rowland Rees-Evans said: “We all know the pressure we are under in schools at the moment, where is this going to hit us in schools? You must have already worked out models, give us some sort of impact assessment.”

HR lead officer Caroline Lewis said that the increase was “significantly more than we thought”, which was why the government was being lobbied and it was now a matter of the “mechanism on receiving the money”.

Cllr Paul Hinge said an increase in teacher pension payments must also be considered.

“What’s our position if we have to find those increases?” he asked, arguing they were not a separate issue as “one is synonymous with the other”.

Council leader Cllr Ellen ap Gwynn said a response to the former First Minster and leader of Welsh Local Government Association’s same question was not clear but extra finance was available for England and that as a “consequential” will come to Wales too.

“I’ve nothing more concrete than that. Because of the Brexit shambles there was no announcement this week as there was supposed to be about the funding on education and communities,” she added.