Design note 4 - what do we mean?
In addition to the similarities between our new icon and the real Northern Lights, we particularly liked some of the themes the Northern Lights icon represented, namely:
Facility Time Publication
Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017
1st April 2023 to 31st March 2024
As part of the Trade Union (Facility Time Publication Requirements) Regulations 2017 we are required to publish information in respect of employees who were relevant Trade Union officials. We have included tables to illustrate the information required.
Relevant Union Officials
What was the total number of your employees who were relevant union officials during the relevant period – include employees who were not representatives for the full 12 months?
| Number of employees who were relevant union officials during the relevant period | Full-time equivalent employee number |
|---|---|
| 8 | 6.97 |
Percentage of time spent on facility time
How many of your employees who were relevant union officials employed during the relevant period spent
a) 0%,
b) 1%-50%,
c) 51%-99% or
d) 100% of their working hours on facility time?
| Percentage of time | Number of Employees |
|---|---|
| 0% | 1 |
| 1-50% | 7 |
| 51-99% | |
| 100% |
Percentage of pay bill spent on facility time
Provide the figures requested in the first column of the table below to determine the percentage of your total pay bill spent on paying employees who were relevant union officials for facility time during the relevant period.
Total cost of facility time
The individual cost of facility time is the hourly cost for each representative multiplied by the number of paid facility time hours.
The hourly cost is the gross amount spent on wages for each employee plus pension contributions plus National Insurance contributions divided by the number of working hours during the period.
To get the total cost of facility time, add together the facility time costs for each representative. For example, if a representative’s hourly cost is £10 and they did 56 paid facility time hours then their individual facility time cost would be £560. If there is only one other representative and that person’s facility time cost is £360 then the total facility time cost would be £920.
£3,890.90
Plus (£32,601 additional facility funding time)
Total pay bill
This is the total gross amount for all employees (not just union representatives) spent on wages plus the total pension contributions plus total National Insurance contributions from April 2023 to March 2024.
£40,709,697
Percentage of the total pay bill spent on facility time
Calculated as: (total cost of facility time ÷ total pay bill) x 100
0.01%
(0.09% if additional facility funding time included)
Paid trade union activities
As a percentage of total paid facility time hours, how many hours were spent by employees who were relevant union officials during the relevant period on paid trade union activities.
| Total amount of time Representatives spent on paid facilities time (paid union duties and activities) | 116.63 |
| Total amount of time Representatives spent on paid union activities | 28.5 |
| Time spent on paid trade union activities as a percentage of total paid facility time hours calculated as: (total hours spent on paid trade union activities by relevant union officials during relevant period ÷ total paid facility time hours) x 100 | 24.44% |
Facilities for Trade Union representatives and Members
Beckfoot Trust agrees to provide appropriate facilities to Trade Union Representatives and members in order to enable them to discharge trade union duties and undertake trade union activity and to facilitate the objectives of effective communication and consultation with employees and their representatives set out in the Trust agreement.
Additional facilities time funding arrangements
In addition, Beckfoot Trust continue to buy into the trade union facilities time arrangements with both the recognised Teacher Trade Unions – NEU, NASUWT, ASCL and NAHT, and the Trade Unions representing support and other professional school staff – UNISON, GMB and UNITE.
In 2023/2024 the cost of this provision was £32,601. We feel the benefits this provision provides our schools are:
- They provide an effective way of meeting responsibilities under the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act and the Health and Safety at Work Act to release and to give access to union representatives.
- They ensure the availability of locally-based, experienced union representatives to advise and support individual members of staff through the whole variety of procedures and situations that commonly arise in our schools.
- They ensure the availability of representatives to take part in Trust and school-based discussions on issues where the Trust has a legal duty to consult, such as staffing reductions, staffing restructures and changes to terms and conditions of employment.
- Experienced representatives give good quality advice to employees on the whole range of work-related issues, from pension’s provision to maternity leave to availability of professional
This statement confirms that the published information is accurate at the time of publishing
31/07/2024