Winning an acceptable pay policy
This guide explains how to challenge unfair pay policies and secure a fair pay policy in your school.
The toolkit gives you all the advice and support you need to secure fair pay treatment in your workplace. It includes advice on pay scales supported by the National Education Union and other teacher unions, a model pay policy and checklist, advice on securing a fair pay policy and pay progression, and advice on pursuing pay appeals where pay progression is denied. We will be updating all of these documents when the outcomes of the statutory consultations on the separate arrangements for 2019-20 for England and Wales are published. In the meantime, please be advised that the key principles set out in the 2018-19 versions of the toolkit below will apply equally in 2019-20.
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Advice
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Advice 
Securing pay progression
This is a guide on steering a course through your appraisal and the pay decision process to ensure that you can secure pay progression.
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Advice 
Understanding pay progression
This guide gives advice on how the pay progression system for classroom teachers works.
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Advice 
Winning pay appeals
This guide gives advice on securing pay progression by persuading governors not to accept a recommendation to deny pay progression or by appealing successfully against a decision to deny progression.
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Pay appeals - model letters
These model letters will help you prepare for meetings about recommendations to deny pay progression and appeals hearings after a decision has been taken to deny pay progression.
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Pay appeals - checklist
This checklist will help you prepare for meetings about recommendations to deny pay progression and appeals hearings after a decision has been taken to deny pay progression.
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Advice 
Pay progression for school leaders
This guide gives advice to leaders on how their pay progression system works.
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Pay model policy
This model pay policy will help to recruit, retain and motivate teachers, provide the basis for sound financial and personnel planning and minimise the risk of grievance and discrimination. It is consistent and compliant with the STPCD and the NEU pay policy checklist.
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NEU pay policy checklist
This checklist should be used alongside the National Education Union model policy to help you negotiate a policy acceptable to the NEU.