WORKING IN ELLIOT FOUNDATION ACADEMIES – AN NUT GUIDE (JULY 2013)

This guidance document gives a brief overview of theElliot Foundation Academy Trust and working in Elliot Academies, including information about:

  • Elliot Foundation Academy Trust and its Academy programme
  • The national trade union recognition agreement
  • Pay and conditions of service
  • Employment policies and procedures

The Elliot Foundation Academy Trust operates common pay and conditions for employees and central negotiating machinery, within which the Union negotiates alongside the other recognised teaching and support staff unions. Arrangements have been established within the NUT for consultation and communication with NUT divisions, Academy representatives and members.

Detailed information about pay and conditions of service in Academies can be found in the NUT document Teachers’ Pay and Conditions in Academies: Guidance for NUT Members at

ABOUT ELLIOT FOUNDATION ACADEMY TRUST

The Elliot Foundation is a charitable multi-academy trust focusing on primary Academies. Elliot’s website is

ELLIOT FOUNDATION ACADEMY TRUST ACADEMIES

At the time of writing the Elliot Foundation Academy Trust had 8 open Academies and had plans to open 4 more. They are:

  • Barnet
  • The HydeSchool (due to open Dec 2013)
  • ParkfieldPrimary School (due to open July 2013)
  • Cambridgeshire – Ramnoth Junior School (due to open Nov 2013)
  • Peterborough – Highlees Community Primary School (due to open Sept 2013)
  • Sandwell
  • ShirelandHallPrimary School (open July 2013)
  • GeorgeBettsPrimary School (open July 2013)
  • Walsall
  • The CroftAcademy(open Sept 2012)
  • RoughHayPrimary School (open Feb 2013)
  • Birmingham
  • KingsRiseAcademy (open Nov 2012)
  • The ShirestoneAcademy (open Nov 2012)
  • BillesleyPrimary School (open Nov 2012)
  • Tiverton Junior and Infant School (open May 2013)

NATIONAL RECOGNITION AGREEMENT

A national recognition agreement in respect of the Elliot Foundation Academy Trust came into effect in October 2012. The agreement was signed by the Trust, the teacher unions - ATL, NAHT, NASUWT and the NUT - and support staff unions, the GMB, Unison and Unite.

The agreement provides for national discussions which will determine arrangements for pay, conditions of service and working time across Elliot Trust Academies. The agreementprovides for collective consultation at individual Academy level as well as time off with pay and facilities time for trade union representatives. The Trust has also agreed to participate in arrangements iwthin local authority areas with regar4ed to trade union facilities time, subject to funding.

The recognition agreement may be found on the NUT website in the pay and conditions > academies section at

PAY AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE

In General

All Academies are able to set their own pay, conditions and working time arrangements for newly appointed teachers joining the Academy. In some Academies, pay and conditions arrangements for such teachers are similar or identical to those for teachers in local authority maintained state schools. In others, teachers’ pay and conditions can be very different.

Teachers transferred from predecessor schoolsreplaced by an Academy are covered by the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE). The TUPE regulations provide that, where an Academy replaces an existing school(s), teachers’ previous pay and conditions entitlements transfer. These include statutory provisions on pay, professional duties and working time and national and local agreements on teachers’ conditions of service, redundancy payments and recognition of the NUT as a trade union. Where the Academy is a new institution, however, all teachers are in the first category of newly appointed teacher and no teachers are protected by TUPE.

Pay and Conditions in Elliot Foundation Academies

The Elliot Foundation Trusthas agreed to maintain STPCD and Burgundy Book arrangements and has undertaken that it will not move away from those arrangements without prior consultation and negotiation with the trade unions.

EMPLOYMENT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

The trade unions will now be entering into discussions with the Trust in respect of a range of employment policies and procedures

NUT SSEE Dept.

July2013