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.