Bryan Slater Director of Education	Distribution
	To Headteachers All Nursery and Secondary Schools

The attached document is provided for your information:

INFORMATION	Title	Analyses of Staffing Costs 2005/06
	Summary of contents	Letter and attachments to assist the preparation of the 2005/06 budget plan.
	Associated documents
	Date	1 November 2004
	Effective from	1 November 2004
	LEA Contact	Your Finance Support Officer	(
	E-mail address
	Norfolk Self Review reference	7. How well is the school led and managed?
	Document reference	MI 196-04

ANALYSES OF STAFFING COSTS 2005/06

I am sending you an analysis of the cost of your teaching staff to help you with the preparation of your budget plan for the financial year starting 1 April, 2005. It is hoped that the budget share will be issued early in February 2005.

The schedule is based on the staff in post in October 2004, whose salaries are being charged to your schools budget code. No allowance is made for future staffing movements or regradings and neither is there any provision for the April 2005 pay award. You will be informed of the percentage increase for next years pay award when you receive details of your 2005/06 budget share.

The schedule does take account of salary increments due in September 2005 for those teachers below spine point 6 on the main pay scale and also includes allowance for employer's oncosts (the estimated cost to the school of employer's national insurance and superannuation contributions). It also includes an allowance for the General Teaching Council subscription, which is payable annually by each school on behalf of their teachers.

Teachers who have passed through the threshold and are being paid on the upper pay scale are identified on the schedule by the abbreviation UPR.

Allowances include management, recruitment and retention, and special education needs points.

The right hand column therefore represents the total cost to the school at current prices, including oncosts, allowances and increments.

I have also included a schedule of all support staff based on the staff in post in October 2004, whose salaries are being charged to your school’s budget code. Again, no allowance is made for future staffing movements or regradings and neither is there any provision for the April 2005 pay award.

The schedule does take account of salary increments due in April 2005 for those members of staff who are entitled to one and also includes allowance for employer’s oncosts.

If you need to make significant changes to the schedules, compare the costs of different staffing options, or prepare forecasts for future years, I would encourage you to make use of the salary spreadsheets that have been made available to all schools. If you have subscribed to the enhanced finance support service, your Finance Support Officer can complete the spreadsheets for you.

If you have any questions concerning the enclosed analysis, please contact your Finance Support Officer.

Yours sincerely

Alison Randall

Finance Support Operations Manager