Purpose

1.1     
This report provides feedback
at Appendix A
(to be
provided at the committee),
on the consultation with staff on the proposal for the pay award
2026/27.
The report
provides at Appendix B
the Pay Policy Statement for 2026/27. The Council is
required by the Localism Act 2011, to
prepare a pay policy statement explaining the policies
relating to the pay of its workforce, particularly its senior staff
and its lowest paid employees. 
The Pay Policy Statement 2026/27, sets out the pay scales and
policies that applied from 1 April 2025 and the proposed uplift of
the pay scales for 2026/27 subject to the approval of the financial
implications by the Cabinet.

Content

 

1.    
That feedback from consultation
with staff on the pay award 2026/27

          
set out in Appendix A
(to be provided at the committee)
be noted.
 

2.    
That a local pay award of 3% for
all staff* for 2026/27, be recommended to the Council as part of
the Pay Policy Statement 2026/27, subject to the outcome of
consultation with staff and to the financial implications being
recommended by the Cabinet as part of the draft Revenue Budget
2026/27 (*see personnel implications at section 8.)