National Negotiating Council for the Probation Service

Standing Committee for Chief Officer Grades

Employers’ Side Secretary: Francis Stuart NNC TU Side Secretary: Ian Lawrence

6th Floor 4 Chivalry Road
Clive House London SW11 1HT

70 Petty FranceTel: 020 7223 4887 Fax: 020 72233503

London SW1P 3LWSCCOG TU Side Secretary: David Walton

Tel: 0300 047 6446C/o GMB 22/24 Worple Road
London SW19 4DD

16 June2016

To: Chair NNC and SCCOG

Deputy Directors, National Probation Service

Chief Executive Officers, CRCs
CRC HR Leads
Director of HR, NOMS
Members of the NNC

Members of SCCOG

NNC CIRCULAR No. 3/2016

SCCOG CIRCULAR No. 2/2016

PROBATION PAY 2015/16

The NNC and SCCOG Joint Secretaries wish toconfirm arrangements for probation pay 2015/16, discussions on which have now closed.

General payment

Employees not at their payband maxima are entitled to a contractual pay rise of one spine point.

Non-consolidated payments and pension

Employees at the maximum of their payband are to be given a non-consolidated payment equivalent to 1% of their current base salary. To protect employees at the lower paid bandings there is an underpin of £300. The payments to be made areas shown in Annex A and will be pro-rated for employees working part time.

Please note that exceptionally, and following legal advice, these payments will be pensionable under Section 20(1) of the LGPS regulations with the relevant employer meeting the additional pension costs.

Francis Stuart

Ian Lawrence

David Walton

Joint Secretaries

Annex A

Payment framework and amounts

Payband / Basic Salary £ / Payment £ / % of pay
1 / 17,243 / 300.00 / 1.74
2 / 21,605 / 300.00 / 1.39
3 / 27,373 / 325.00 / 1.19
4 / 36,084 / 375.00 / 1.04
5 / 39,818 / 450.00 / 1.13
6 / 47,117 / 475.00 / 1.01
A / 52,846 / 528.46 / 1.00
B / 63,214 / 632.14 / 1.00
C / 71,939 / 719.39 / 1.00
D / 87,783 / 877.83 / 1.00

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