Teaching staff joining bonus
Dear E-ACT Free Schools Trust,
I should like to request the following information: the number of teaching staff that are taken on, each year, to the Trust between 15 June and 1 August each year and receive salary payments over the August period. Please also provide a breakdown of the cost to the Trust of these staff in terms of Salary/NI/Pension. Please provide this for each year from 2012.
Additionally, please provide a breakdown of the cost per year of any additional recruitment/joining bonus paid to new teaching staff to the trust.
I should receive these in electronic format at this email address.
It would be helpful if you were to provide any brief notes which might be necessary to understand the context of the information provided, although I recognise that you are not obliged to do this. If for any reason you feel this request is unclear, please do not hesitate to contact me. If you are not the appropriate authority for this request, or for part of it, please let me know as soon as is convenient.
If the information requested contains sections of confidential information, please blank out or remove these sections, and mark clearly that they have been removed.
Thank you for your help.
Yours faithfully,
Billy
Dear Mr Arden
Thank you for your email. We can confirm receipt and that we will reply
within the mandated number of days. You should receive a reply no later
than 04 May 2018
Kind regards
London: Unit 9.2.1 The Leather Market, 11-13 Weston Street, London SE1 3ER
Kettering: The Orangery, 28 Headlands, Kettering, Northamptonshire. NN15
7HP
Registered Office: E-ACT, 10 Queen Street Place, London, EC4R 1BE Company
No. 0652 6376
E-ACT is a charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England
and Wales
Dear Mr Arden,
Further to your Freedom of Information request received on 07 April, we
advise that following the migration to a new payroll system in 2016, we do
not have all the information accessible, but have set out the information
below that we do have.
From 15th June 2016 - 1st August 2016 we had 34 new teaching staff.
From 15th June 2017 - 1st August 2017 we had 32 new teaching staff.
Our teaching staff are paid over August.
It is not appropriate to outline pay in terms of salary/NI/pension as
requested in relation to individual staff. Our teachers are enrolled onto
Teachers' Pensions and pay a contribution rate based on their salary band.
Details of these contribution rates are available here:
[1]https://www.teacherspensions.co.uk/emplo....
As an employer, we pay 16.48% as an employer contribution.
Our teachers are paid in line with the School Teachers Pay & Conditions
Document which is released annually. The current teaching pay scales for
2017-18 are:
Main pay range
£22,917 (min) - £33,824 (max)
Upper pay range
£35,927 (min) - £38,633 (max)
In terms of the recruitment/joining bonus paid to members of staff, this
is not common practice for E-ACT. We can confirm that during the period
of information we were able to access on our systems, one recruitment
incentive was paid of less than £200.
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Yours sincerely,
Harriet Rushton
Governance Manager
Tel: 020 3176 3911
Website: [3]www.e-act.org.uk
Twitter: @EducationEACT
London: Unit 9.2.1 The Leather Market, 11-13 Weston Street, London SE1 3ER
Kettering: The Orangery, 28 Headlands, Kettering, Northamptonshire. NN15
7HP
Registered Office: E-ACT, 10 Queen Street Place, London, EC4R 1BE Company
No. 0652 6376
E-ACT is a charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England
and Wales
From: FOI
Sent: 19 April 2018 14:43
To: B.Arden <[FOI #476104 email]>
Cc: FOI <[E-ACT Free Schools Trust request email]>
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Teaching staff joining bonus
Dear Mr Arden
Thank you for your email. We can confirm receipt and that we will reply
within the mandated number of days. You should receive a reply no later
than 04 May 2018
Kind regards
London: Unit 9.2.1 The Leather Market, 11-13 Weston Street, London SE1 3ER
Kettering: The Orangery, 28 Headlands, Kettering, Northamptonshire. NN15
7HP
Registered Office: E-ACT, 10 Queen Street Place, London, EC4R 1BE Company
No. 0652 6376
E-ACT is a charitable company limited by guarantee registered in England
and Wales
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