Help with Redundancy in Suffolk Schools

1) Suffolk NUT leaflet: When a School Declares a Redundancy

2) DTI ready-reckoner for redundancy payments

3) Letter to write volunteering for redundancy

Before you do this:

- obtain a written quotation in writing from the Area Education Personnel Officer (i.e. an estimate of the redundancy figure and, where appropriate, the pension payable including the lump sum) (See addresses)

- contact your Association or Division Secretary

Then: Write to the Headteacher, copy to the Area Personnel Officer (addresses) as follows:

"Dear (Headteacher), In connection with the current Section 188 notice for our school, I wish to volunteer for (EITHER) redundancy / (OR) early retirement on the grounds of redundancy, provided that the financial settlement will be no less favourable to me than the figures quoted in the letter to me dated **th *** from *** (NAME OF PERSONNEL OFFICER).

Please acknowledge receipt of this letter in writing.

Yours etc."