Employers' Guide

Appendix 2 - Establishment range bands and categories of service

The following table shows the employment types which are recorded by TP.

  • full time pensionable service;
  • full time non pensionable service;
  • part-time pensionable service; and
  • part time non pensionable service

0001-0099

0200-0399

Homes set up under the Children and Young Persons Act (e.g. Community Homes)

0400-0524

Training and occupation centres and other DSS establishments (except day nurseries)

0525-0549

Special Hospitals provided under Part VII of the Mental Health Act 1959

0550-0574

Teachers' Superannuation (Army Civilian Lecturer) Scheme 1951 Schools or schools formerly under that Scheme

0575-0599

Education Forum

0600

CAY

0601

PAY

0625

DSS day nurseries

0626-0674

Schools and institutions controlled by other government departments

0675-0750

0100-0199

Employment under voluntary youth organisations

0751-0939

Employment under adult and miscellaneous organisations

0940-0949

Playing for Success Centres

1000-1799

LA nursery schools

1100-1150

Pupil referral units

1800-1899

Direct-grant nursery schools

1900-1999

Independent nursery education establishment recognised as efficient

2000-3999

Maintained primary schools

4000-4999

Maintained secondary schools

5000-5099

Direct-grant schools (recorded up to October 1980)

5100-5199

Practical instruction centres (not all such centres have been allocated individual numbers but where a number has already been allocated its use is continued. All new centres are numbered 5199)

5200-5299

Grant-maintained primary/middle deemed primary schools

5300-5399

Camps, holiday classes etc.

5400-5499

Grant-maintained secondary/middle deemed secondary schools

5500-5548

Immigrant centres

5601-5899

Grant-maintained primary, middle and secondary schools (overflow)

5900-5949

Grant-maintained schools (formally Independent)

5950-5999

Grant-maintained special schools

6000-6899

Independent schools

6900-6904

6905-6924

City technology colleges

City Academies

7000-7749

Special schools (except as below)

7750-7798

Special schools for nursery age children

7800-7899

Boarding homes for handicapped pupils

7900-7999

Establishments for further education and training of disabled persons

8000-8149

Maintained and assisted major FE establishments (not included below)

8150-8199

Maintained and assisted art establishments

8200-8219

Direct-grant major FE establishments

8220-8269

Independent (Efficient-Rules 16) FE establishments

8270-8284

National colleges

8300-8349

LA farm institutes

8350-8389

LA agricultural centres

8390-8399

Direct-grant and independent agricultural establishments

8400-8549

LA youth welfare

8500-8599

LA adult welfare

8600-8699

Sixth form colleges

8700-8898

Polytechnics/New Style Universities

9300-9599

LA colleges of education

9600-9899

Voluntary colleges of education

0950

Teacher /organiser (employed primarily as a teacher)

0951

Divided service between Primary and Secondary Schools

0952

0954

Divided service between Further Education and P & S Schools

Adult Miscellaneous Organisation

7799

Divided service between Special Schools

8999

Divided service between FE establishments

0953

Adult Miscellaneous Organisation (not allocated an Estab No) - ie teacher paid under FE document, employed providing FE or Adult Education (eg Community College)

0955

Teacher employed by Ministry of Defence (UK based)

0960

Unattached regular engagement in Primary Schools - ie Permanent 'supply' teacher under contract

0961

Unattached regular engagement in Secondary or P & S - ie Permanent 'supply' teacher under contract

0962

Visiting Teacher Primary - peripatetic teacher (eg specialist subject teacher visiting different schools)

0963

Visiting Teacher Secondary or P & S - peripatetic teacher (eg specialist subject teacher visiting different schools)

0964

P & S teaching under Section 56 of Education Act 1944 - ie teaching other than at a school (eg at home or in a hospital, or teachers in penal establishments)

0965

Peripatetic support wholly for SEN or disabled not in a special school.

0966

School supply teacher - whose contract is terminable without notice. Teacher who is employed temporarily in place of a regularly employed teacher. Teacher has made a part-time election.

0970

0971

Full-time Organiser - employment involves the performance of duties in connection with the provision of education or service ancillary to education (accepted in TPS only if previously accepted under 1967 Teachers' Pension Regulations)

0972

Full and Part-Time Youth and Community Worker

5199

Service as a teacher in Practical Instruction Centres - providing P & S education (previously allocated individual numbers in range 5100-5199)(not schools - unattached units). (Service other than as a teacher would have to be considered by the Department)

5549

Service as a teacher in Remedial Centres and Support Units - providing P & S education (not schools - unattached units). (Service other than as a teacher would have to be considered by the Department

5599

Service as a teacher in any other P & S Centre (ie not PI or Remedial)(eg Assessment Centres outdoor pursuit centres, Teacher Centres [if paid P & S]). Service other than as a teacher would have to be considered by Teachers' Pensions)

5600

Service in Intermediate Treatment Centres - providing P & S education (not schools - unattached units)

9099

Function Provider within a LEA

8899

Adult Education Service (residential adult education estabs have numbers allocated in range 8290-8294). Teacher Centres if paid on FE Scales, Adult Literacy Scheme staff (LA)

0999

Service of any other kind (eg full-time educational officers in penal estabs Job Creation Schemes). Normally this code will not be used where a teacher is in receipt of a mandatory Burnham salary

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