I am looking for some advice please.
My HT was at a meeting recently where they were discussing the Teacher Pension scheme and a meeting member was talking about any members of a Leadership Team (Qualified Teachers) within School needing to be actually teaching for 30% of their time to be enable them remain a member of the TPS. I know my HT would not be able to commit to this requirement and wonder what the actual situation is and how, if this is the case, it is checked/audited.
Hi Sharon
Presumably it was a teacher who was asserting such a ‘fact’ - which surely would mean that all Head Teachers etc would have never to drop below 30% personal class contact in order not to be thrown out of the TPS - clearly absurd!
It also probably illustrates that some (many?) teachers tend to have entirely misplaced confidence in their own grasp of ‘the facts’.
As far as I can see, officially, this bit of delicate fence-sitting still very much applies:
www.teacherspensions.co.uk/.../executive-head-ceo-eligibility.aspx
- and, in reality, if the employer enrols a particular staff member in the TPS, then surely the TPS won’t normally ever require further proof of their present or continuing eligibility for membership?
