The Funding, Staffing and Allowances Handbook
Chapters 1-6 and the References and Resources section of the Funding, Staffing and Allowances Handbook.
Please note that since 2009, Chapter 7 - Education Service Payroll, has been removed from the Handbook. Any information on School Payroll may now be found on Education Service Payroll’s website, www.schoolpayroll.govt.nz.
In this section
- Updates and downloads
- This page contains itemised updates made throughout the year. You can also download print versions of each chapter in PDF format
- Chapter 1: Operational funding
- This chapter provides information about the operational funding that boards receive and its components. It also details how to read the Operational Funding Entitlement and the Operational Funding Instalment notices
- Chapter 2: School staffing
- In this section we look at school staffing
- Chapter 3: Additional payments to schools
- In this section we look at payments made to boards in addition to their operational funding and staffing entitlement
- Chapter 4: Payments to individuals
- This section includes information on payments that may be made to either an employer or employees under a range of teacher supply initiatives, and/or provisions of their appropriate employment agreements
- Chapter 5: Roll returns, record keeping and resourcing audits
- This chapter includes information about the 1 March and 1 July roll returns, auditing the roll returns, and the records boards must keep of their rolls, enrolment and attendance
- Chapter 6: Financial management
- This section contains information for boards of trustees on preparing budgets, monitoring financial objectives, and reporting against those objectives
- References and resources
- Useful information from the references and resources section of the Funding, Staffing and Allowances handbook