Joint Education Services Circular (JESC) No 234 - Youth and community workers' pay agreement 2024

The JNC for Youth and Community Workers has reached a pay agreement for 2024 which is a pay increase of £1,290 on all pay points on the pay scale.

Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC) for Youth and Community Workers (YCW)

17 December 2024

To: Local Authorities in England and Wales
Local Government Association Subscribers

Dear colleague,

We are pleased to confirm that the JNC for Youth and Community Workers has reached an agreement on a pay award for 2024 which is as follows:

an increase of £1,290 on all spinal column points on the Youth and Community Support Worker Range and the Professional Range from 1 September 2024
an increase of 2.5 per cent on the London Area Allowances and Sleeping-In-Duty Allowance from 1 September 2024.

A revised pay spine is below, for your information.

Yours sincerely

David Algie
Employers’ Side Secretariat

Andy Murray
Staff Side Secretary

Employers’ Side Secretary: Sarah Ward
Local Government Association, 18 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HZ

Staff Side Secretary: Andy Murray
Unite, 128 Theobold’s Road, London, WC1X 8TN

Youth and Community Workers Pay Spine 2024
	Support worker range Pay points		Professional range Pay points
		13	30,896
		14	32,040
		15	32,818
		16	33,631
5	24,786	17	34,431
6	25,115	18	35,236
7	25,411	19	36,035
8	26,089	20	36,837
9	26,954	21	37,737
10	27,631	22	38,757
11	28,724	23	39,751
12	29,791	24	40,749
13	30,896	25	41,755
14	32,040	26	42,760
15	32,818	27	43,765
16	33,631	28	44,783
17	34,431	29	45,792
		30	46,803
		31	47,485*
	* Discretionary points	32	48,606*

Sleeping in duty allowance
Sleeping in allowance	42.00
Disturbance element	23.58