Youth and community officers are currently being consulted on whether to accept a final offer from Local Government Employers (LGE) of a revised pay scale that will raise the maximum service managers can earn.
The offer is part of a series of negotiations for youth officers working on the Soulbury pay scale, which is a scale for management level staff that recognises professional roles and qualifications. It currently has 16 points, although a number of the lower points are rarely used because they are so low.
As staff move up the career ladder they receive pay increases at each of the 16 points on the scale, which currently stops at £45,387 a year. LGE has now proposed adding an extra five points at the top end of the scale.
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