Explanatory note

This Order amends the School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document 2005 (“the Document”) in order to allow teachers to participate voluntarily in certain salary sacrifice arrangements and in order to ensure that where a teacher is entitled to a safeguarded sum under the Document participation in a salary sacrifice arrangement does not affect the determination of that safeguarded sum with effect from 1^st June 2006.

This Order also amends the Document to make provision for the assimilation of Advanced Skills Teachers onto a new pay spine with effect from 1^st September 2006. These changes result from a recommendation made by the School Teachers' Review Body in Part 2 of their 13th Report in 2004.