The governing body should set out in the school pay policy, the precise criteria and standards that will be used to determine decisions on pay progression for leadership group teachers. This guide gives advice to leaders on how their pay progression system works.

Since the imposition of performance related pay progression for all teachers, National Education Union members have worked successfully in many schools and academies to secure school pay policies which protect teachers. This guide explains how to challenge unfair pay policies and secure a fair pay policy in your school. Now that all pay progression depends on appraisal outcomes and criteria set by schools, there is no sense in failing to do so.

This guide gives advice on how the pay progression system for classroom teachers works. With pay progression depending on appraisal outcomes and meeting standards set by schools, knowing how the system works and how to challenge pay policies collectively or appeal decisions individually is essential to protect teachers’ pay.

This is a very brief guide on steering a course through your appraisal and the pay decision process to ensure that you can secure pay progression. Remember – if you are denied progression you have the right to appeal.

This guide gives advice on pay appeals and 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.

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.

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.

The National Education Union believes that a fair, transparent and consistent pay policy which recognises and rewards teachers as highly skilled professionals, is a key element ineffective school improvement. 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.

This checklist should be used alongside the National Education Union model policy to help you negotiate a policy acceptable to the NEU. You may not be able to secure everything on this checklist – if so, you will need to consult members on whether the proposed policy is sufficiently positive to be acceptable.