Pay and Contract Support Services provides schools with the tools and support for all pay and employment-related administration, including new starters, pay changes, absences and salary claims. View prices for this service.
Available to maintained schools only as a bundle through our partnership with Hampshire County Council. IBC must be taken with education finance and personnel services.
How we can help your school
- Pay staff in accordance with agreed pay scales, contractual terms and conditions
- Ensure statutory deductions are made in accordance with legislation
- Ensure that pension scheme and voluntary deductions are processed and ‘paid over’
- Ensure all statutory returns are provided correctly and on time
- Casework for maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Employee pay references for mortgages and employment
- Confirming dates of service and earnings data
- Administration of teachers' pension and local government pension schemes
- Schools can use forms to apply starters, leavers, claims and changes to employee records.
Key benefits to the school
- Access to Pay and Contract Support Services via email and telephone for schools and their employees for all pay related matters
- Ensures compliance with statutory PAYE regulations as well as agreed pay and terms and conditions of employment
- Assistance with the maintenance of employment records to meet requirements.
What does the service offer?
- Access to pay and contract support services for schools and their employees concerning contractual and pay arrangements
- Processes to assist in the maintenance of employment records and pay data
- Administration of teachers’ pension elections
- Pay appropriate monthly pension contributions to the Teachers' Pensions, LGPS and maintain records to support completion of necessary returns
- Provide Schools with forms and tools to facilitate the processing of allowances, overtime, honoraria, casual claims, travel and expense claims
- Implementing pay awards and calculating backdated pay where applicable
- Providing full ‘end of year’ service as required by the HMRC
- Compliance with statutory and administrative regulations affecting pay
- Administration connected with the recovery of sums due to school following staff absence due to third-party accidents
- Maintaining employees’ income tax coding and National Insurance category
- Paying salaries or wages directly to employees’ bank accounts
- Respond to HMRC enquiries and other agencies as required, e.g. other local authorities, banks, building societies and other government departments
- Managing the collection of overpayments to employees
- Run payroll and pay staff via BACS
- Provide staff with online payslips
- Check data quality
- Pay statutory and occupational payments