Circular NJC/3/26 – Continual professional development payments: payments by authority

National Joint Council for Local Authority Fire and Rescue Services

Employers’ Secretary, Sarah Ward 
18 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3HZ
Telephone: 020 7664 3000
[email protected]

Employees’ Secretary, Steve Wright
Ken Cameron House, 
171-173 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8UE 
Telephone 020 8541 1765

To: Chief fire officers
Chief executives/Clerks to fire authorities
Chairs of fire authorities
Directors of HR (Fire Authorities)

Members of the National Joint Council

3 July 2026

Circular NJC/3/26

Dear Colleague,

Continual professional development payments: payments by authority

1. Circular NJC/2/26 contains the revised payments with effect from 1 July 2026. The NJC has also agreed an increase of 3.8 per cent on the above payments with effect from the 1 July 2026.
2. Appendix A (below) contains the revised payments by individual fire authority.
3. You will be aware that in order to ensure all employees receive a pay increase on promotion where they otherwise may not as a result of the loss of a CPD payment, the NJC applies a minimum guaranteed increase upon promotion in such circumstances. That figure will be £441 per annum with effect from 1 July 2026. For those on the retained duty system the figure will be £109 pa with the same effective date.

Yours faithfully

Sarah Ward
Steve Wright
Joint Secretaries