Useful resources

• Green book – terms and conditions
• Green book pay FAQs
• Green book pay scale
• Green book job evaluation and role profiles
• Burgundy book
• School teachers’ pay & conditions Q&A
• Advisory London Weightings 
• School teachers' pay and conditions
• Gold book – fire brigade managers
• Grey book – firefighters
• Red book – craft workers
• Pink book – youth and community
• Blue book – Soulbury
• Orange book – Residential teachers
• Chief executives
• Chief officers
• Blind workshops

• Apprenticeships
• Better Hiring Toolkit for local authorities 
• Education and young people
• Employment relations
• Equality, diversity and inclusion in the workforce
• Fire and rescue
• Managing the menopause at work
• Organisational design
• Pay systems
• Wellbeing
• Workforce planning
• Supporting employees on domestic abuse
• Thriving at Work standards guide

• Schools gender pay gap

Employer Link has analysed data submitted from 10,000 organisations to the government’s gender pay gap service. Subscribers are able to view the report, which includes data on: the mean, median and distribution of the pay gap, the difference between school phases (primary vs secondary), the proportion of men/women in each pay band and more to help employers with gender pay gap bench marking.

• Academy trusts chief executive pay

As part of bench marking work, Employer Link has analysed the chief executive pay of 25 per cent of all MATs in England. This report covers: regional pay, wage inflation, organisation size, gender equality and gender pay gap, reward strategy insights, recruitment, and retention and more.

• Apprenticeships in the academies sector

In 2019, 60 MATS completed a short questionnaire made by Employer Link in collaboration with the Academies Enterprise Trust.  The questionnaire provides useful information about MATs apprenticeships since the introduction of the levy. 

• Academy trusts workforce costs

This report is our most popular resource. Employer Link has analysed the workforce data published of 450 MATs and an analysis is available to read for subscribers. This report covers: executive pay, overall workforce costs, sickness absence, staff development (including the apprenticeship levy), staff numbers, part time working and more to help MATs with benchmarking.

• Local government workforce surveys
• Local government earnings survey

• LGA's role in the Local Government Pension Scheme
• LGA's role in Teachers Pension
• The Local Government Pension website – the members website
• Teachers' Pension Scheme – the administration site for this scheme.

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