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Following a consultation over the summer, the government have now published a revised version of Working Together to Safeguard Children. Chang

Legislation – Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 - has been brought forward to enable minimum service levels to be applied within key sectors in the event of strike action. This new legi

The Department for Education has publish non-statutory Gender Questionin

Following the closure of the GMB ballot on 24 October 2023, confirmation from the Local Government Association was received on the afternoon of 1 November 2023 that the pay award for local government services (those employees on ‘Green Book’) has been reached.

The Government has at last published its long awaited response following the consultation on reforms to retained EU employment law and the consultation on calculating holiday entitlement for part-year and irregular hours workers; many people know this as the consultation following the Harpur v Braze

In July 2023, following the announcement of the 6.5% teacher pay award, the DfE announced that it would be providing additional funding of up to £40 million as further support to schools in particular financial difficulty.

The DfE has published the outcome of the valuation of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, and it has been confirmed there is a need to increase the employer contribution rate by 5% from April 2024.

The 2023 School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) has now been published. This is statutory guidance for LA maintained schools in England, although many academies and multi-academy trusts also comply with it.

The DfE recently announced that there had been an error in the calculation of the National Funding Formula (NFF) rates for 2024/25.