This is a service for maintained schools and academies. Your subscription will buy a fully managed payroll and pension’s service. The locally based team are on hand to assist you with support and advice. Our team offer a comprehensive cost effective service which will ensure your compliance with legislative requirements.

Payroll maintained

• Submitting on behalf of the schools a timely secure BACs file detailing monthly salaries for payment to staff bank accounts for payment on the appropriate payment date.
• Calculating all payments and deductions in accordance with statutory and contractual requirements.
• Providing full HM Revenue and Customs compliance in relation to payments made via the payroll as authorised by the school.
• Guaranteed reliable and accurate payroll every pay cycle, providing you with confidence that an important process has been taken care of.
• Implementation of pay awards and accurate calculations of back pay.
• Settlement of authorised expense claims through the payroll process.
• Calculating and paying annual increments.
• Payment of statutory and contractual sickness, maternity, paternity and adoption pay to employees. 
• Provision of confidential pay advice containing detailed pay analysis to employees.
• Making all necessary returns to HM Revenue and Customs.
• End of year returns, including P60’s and P11d’s.
• Experienced team available to provide support for your payroll queries.
• We will provide you with guidance and support to ensure your school meets any changes to regulation or legislation.
• Our flexible payroll system is designed to accommodate all of your schools needs including Salary Sacrifice schemes.
• Administration of both the Local Government and Teacher’s Pension Scheme.

Pensions

• Dedicated pensions advisor.
• Provision of general telephone advice on a range of pension issues incorporating both Local Government and Teachers Pensions schemes.
• Opportunity for Teams meetings or school visits to discuss any pension issues arising.
• Provide one full set of pension estimates per annum for scheme members who may be at risk of redundancy, are interested in taking flexible retirement or are nearing retirement age.
• Provide employer costs to headteachers and bursars by calculating estimated redundancy payments and pension strain costs associated with possible staff redundancies.
• End of year returns for the LGPS and TPS.
• End Of Year Certificate (EOYC) for the TPS and assistance with the Teachers’ Pensions audit.

Benefits to your school

• We are a specialist education payroll provider with knowledge of your school.
• Access to a high quality professional payroll and pension service that is statutorily compliant.
• Flexibility of service which is tailored to your needs, providing value for money.
• Cohesive working with your HR advisors to promote an end to end service, reducing the burden on school staff.
• Fostering an ethos of continuous improvement to ensure your school is fully compliant with current regulation.

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