MANAGEMENT SIDE SECRETARY SARAH MESSENGER LOCAL GOVERNMENT HOUSE SMITH

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Management Side Secretary, Mike Walker

Management Side Secretary, Sarah Messenger

Local Government House, Smith Square,

London, SW1P 3HZ

Telephone 020 7187 7335 Fax 020 7664 3030


Officers’ Side Secretary, Christopher Johnson

Midland Bank Building, Grange Road,

West Kirby, Wirral,

Merseyside, CH48 4EB

Telephone 0151-625 6538 Fax 0151-625 7757



JOINT NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE FOR CORONERS

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To: Chief Executives (London Boroughs, Metropolitan Districts, County Councils and Unitary Councils in England and Wales)

(copy enclosed for Treasurer)

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3 August 2009

CORONERS’ CIRCULAR No 50


Dear Sir/Madam


PAY OF WHOLE-TIME AND PART-TIME CORONERS


Comparison with chief officer salaries


  1. Authorities will be aware of the long-standing JNC agreement to periodically adjust coroners’ salaries in recognition of the drift between coroner and chief officer pay.


  1. This drift happens because coroners are on fixed salaries; however local authorities have greater freedom to determine chief officers’ salaries within national benchmarks. There is a tendency for chief officers’ pay to grow more rapidly than that of coroners.


  1. This matter was last addressed with effect from 1 April 2008 and in accordance with the agreement should be reviewed annually.

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4. Following that review the attached revised salary levels should be applied with effect from 1 April 2009.


5. The JNC has agreed to consider the matter of future drift as part of a joint review on pay, the outcomes of which will inform pay negotiations for 2010.


Pay award update


  1. Negotiations continue on the matter of this year’s pay award.


Yours faithfully

SARAH MESSENGER

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON

Joint Secretaries


WHOLE-TIME CORONERS


1. Whole-time coroner salaries with effect from 1st April 2009:

Population band £

400,000-700,000 90,291

700,000-1,000,000 94,169

over 1,000,000 98,434



2. The provisions of Coroners’ Circular No 14 dated 16th April 1980, allowing for the payment of a 5.5% salary supplement to whole-time coroners joining the Local Government Pension Scheme, continue to apply.


3. Arrangements to pay an allowance to whole-time coroners to cover office expenses should continue to be settled locally. When revising those arrangements, authorities are asked to have regard to the increases in administrative costs since the last settlement.


4. For those jurisdictions with an annual caseload of 3,000 or more there is provision for payment for a deputy, such payment to be based on a proportion of caseload. The proportion is calculated by taking 80% of 11.5% of the annual caseload. The resulting figure attracts the same cash sum as a part-time coroner with a similar caseload. For those jurisdictions with an annual caseload of less than 3,000 the provision for the payment of a deputy should be on the same basis as that for a deputy to a part-time coroner.

PART-TIME CORONERS


5. Salary scales for part-time coroners with effect from 1st April 2009 (part-time coroners with less than 200 cases reported annually are excluded from the scope of these provisions):


Annual

Caseload*

wef

1st April 2009

£pa

200

9,831

300

13,470

400

17,096

500

19,812

600

22,396

700

25,114

800

27,734

900

29,622

1000

31,464

1100

33,217

1200

35,092

1300

37,029

1400

38,744

1500

40,635

1600

42,514

1700

44,499

1800

46,366

1900

48,249

2000

49,969

* The interpolation between hundreds is to be calculated on the basis of the appropriate differentials between the nearest two caseload figures. Caseloads shall be calculated on the average number of cases recorded annually during the preceding three years ending in the month of December. This calculation should take place annually, not necessarily to coincide with the pay increase.


6. Where a part-time coroner incurs costs in employing a deputy the local authority, following receipt of an itemised claim from the coroner, should reimburse the actual costs up to a maximum in any calendar year of 11.5% of the coroner’s salary and “county loading” (excluding high inquest weighting, long inquest payments, pension supplement and allowance for office expenses).


7. Arrangements to pay an allowance to part-time coroners to cover office expenses, such as the provision of office accommodation or clerical assistance, should continue to be settled locally. In the light of the provisions of paragraph 6 such allowance should not cover the cost of providing a deputy. When revising those arrangements, authorities are asked to have regard to the increase in administrative costs since the last settlement.


8. The provisions of Coroners’ Circular No 8 dated 21st April 1978, allowing for the payment of a 5.5% salary supplement to part-time coroners joining the Local Government Pension Scheme, continue to apply.


  1. In the case of some jurisdictions existing salaries include additional percentage payments (sometimes referred to as “county loadings”) of at least 10% of the standard salary, the precise amount to be determined locally between the local authority and the coroner concerned. The county loadings are to be calculated with effect from 1st April 2008 on the basis of the revised scales set out in paragraph 5. No increase shall be made in the currently agreed percentage rates for the loadings.


10. In addition, an annual weighting element is payable to part-time coroners in whose jurisdiction special circumstances exist which contribute towards an exceptionally high inquest caseload, ie where more than 25% of the total caseload consists of inquest cases. The supplement is to be calculated as follows:


Annual Salary x (actual percentage of inquest cases - 25)

100


11. A part-time coroner undertaking long inquests (ie inquests lasting for more than one day) shall be paid at the rate of £113.37 per hour for the first 50 hours spent in court (beyond the first day) in any twelve-month period (starting on 1st April annually) and £78.51 per hour for the first 100 hours in the same twelve-month period in preparing for such inquests (it shall be for the paying authority to agree what constitutes reasonable preparation time). Where, in any twelve-month period, a part-time coroner spends more than 50 hours in court (beyond the first day) and/or more than 100 hours in preparing for such inquests the rate of remuneration shall be at a daily rate based on the maximum of the whole-time coroners’ pay scale divided by 250. The division of the daily figure by 5 derives the hourly figure.





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