UPPER PAY SPINE PROGRESSION

All post-threshold teachers paid on the Upper Pay Scale are entitled to have their pay reviewed by the governing body with effect from 1 September 2005 and to receive a written statement outlining the governing body’s determination of their pay.
Teachers should expect to have received notification of progression by December 31st at the latest. Schools in Bucks have been advised to carry out the reviews durng the Autumn Term.
No Application required

Schools have a statutory duty to undertake annual pay reviews for all teachers, including post-threshold teachers. Progression on the Upper Pay Scale is not an application process.

Teachers cannot therefore be asked to make an application or fill in any form before the review is undertaken.

The statutory criteria for progression on the Upper Pay Scale, requiring that “the achievements of the post-threshold teacher and his/her contribution to the school” should have been “substantial and sustained”, are unchanged.

Teachers eligible for UPS progression from September 2005 have been working towards such progression since September 2003 on the basis of these criteria.

It would be improper and unacceptable to seek to alter teachers’ expectations of the basis of their progress from 1 September 2005 at this late stage.

The NUT expects decisions on teachers’ progression on the Upper Pay Scale from September 2005 to be made in a manner consistent with the expectations and procedures in place during the previous two years.

The NUT therefore advises that all teachers who have previously been assessed as meeting the threshold standards and who have continued in the last two years to meet those standards should be regarded as having met the criteria of “substantial and sustained”.

Where members have been informed they will not progress to UPS Point 2 or 3

Where members have been so informed, they should contact their NUT division secretary or the NUT regional office.

SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVES

NUT Union Organisation

Elect an NUT School Representative.

Members should seek to elect an NUT school representative in the early part of the Autumn Term. The names of school representatives should be notified to Local Association secretaries. Usually the NUT representative is only expected to disseminate information to members, via the notice board, organise school based meetings as and when necessary and make representations from those meetings to the Head Teacher. There is no expectation for school representatives to handle individual casework although they may do so if they wish. This year is particularly important as the transfer from Management Allowances to teaching and Learning Responsibilties payments takes place. The NUT needs the help of School Representatives to protect teachers pay and conditions of service. School representatives are entitled to attend a three-day UNION residential training course.


Look out for notices regarding Local Association meetings. In the High Wycombe District these notices are often sent into school via email for the attention of the school representative.
School representatives sending an email to the Division Secretary can be notified direct to their own email address.