<p> WORKING IN KEMNAL TRUST ACADEMIES – AN NUT GUIDE (SEPTEMBER 2011)</p><p>This guidance document gives a brief overview of employment in Kemnal Academies Trust operated Academies. It sets out information about: </p><p> Kemnal Trust and its Academy programme  The national trade union recognition agreement  Pay and conditions of service  Employment policies and procedures</p><p>The Kemnal Academies 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.</p><p>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 http://www.teachers.org.uk/academies-pay-and- conditions</p><p>ABOUT KEMNAL ACADEMIES TRUST</p><p>The Kemnal Trust (now the Kemnal Academies Trust) was established in 2008 and is centred on the Kemnal Technology College in Bromley. The Trust also comprises a number of primary and secondary schools in Bexley, Bromley, Essex and Kent.</p><p>Kemnal’s website is http://thekemnalacademiestrust.org/.</p><p>THE KEMNAL ACADEMIES TRUST </p><p>At the time of writing the Kemnal Academies Trust had 12 open Academies and is due to open a further one. They are: </p><p> Bromley - Kemnal Technology College (open Sept 2010)  Bexley o Welling School (open May 2011) o East Wickham Infant School (open April 2011) o Cleeve Park School (due to open Sept 2011)  Essex o Debden Park High School (open April 2011) o King Harold Business and Enterprise School (open Nov 2010) o Hylands School (open Aug 2011)</p><p>1  Kent o Orchards Academy (open Nov 2010) o Horizon Primary Academy (open Sept 2011) o Pluckley COE Primary School (open Oct 2011) o Smarden Primary School (open Oct 2011)  Medway - Rainham Academy (open Feb 2011)  West Sussex – The Academy Selsey (open Sept 2011)</p><p>NATIONAL RECOGNITION AGREEMENT</p><p>A national recognition agreement in respect of Kemnal Academies Trust came into effect in May 2011. The agreement was signed by Kemnal Academies Trust, the teacher unions - ATL, NASUWT and the NUT - and support staff unions, the GMB, Unison and Unite.</p><p>The agreement provides that Kemnal will continue to employ staff on nationally determined pay and conditions of service for teachers. </p><p>As part of the national agreement, Kemnal have undertaken to encourage staff to join a union. The agreement also provides for the entitlement to reasonable time off with pay for union representatives and a number of other facilities such as confidential rooms for reps to meet with members, dedicated space on notice-boards in staff rooms and consultation with local union representatives in respect of workplace, staffing and employment matters.</p><p>The recognition agreement may be found in the pay and conditions>academies section at www.teachers.org.uk. </p><p>PAY AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE</p><p>In General</p><p>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.</p><p>Teachers transferred from predecessor schools replaced 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.</p><p>Kemnal Trust Academies</p><p>Kemnal has agreed with the teacher unions that it will apply STPCD and Burgundy Book arrangements for all its teachers – including newly appointed teachers - across its network of Academies.</p><p>2 In line with its agreement to apply the STPCD to its teachers, however, teachers’ pay - for those on Kemnal contracts and those who remain on TUPE arrangements – will not have increased in September 2011 due to the Coalition Government’s two-year public sector pay freeze for school teachers and others for the years 2011 and 2012.</p><p>EMPLOYMENT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES</p><p>As indicated, the recognition agreement provides for machinery to negotiate on a range of issues. </p><p>The trade unions will be discussing with Kemnal a number of employment policies and procedures.</p><p>NUT SSEE Dept. 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