Trade Union Facility Time

1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026

We recognise two trade unions: 

UNISON and GMB 

Representatives 

We currently have 2 employees who are UNISON representatives (including general, learning and health and safety representatives) all of whom are full-time employees.

Time spent on Facility Time 

The amount of time spent on facility time is 2.5 days (18.5 hours) per year.  As a percentage this is :

• 0% of working hours: 0 representatives
• 1 to 50% of working hours: 2 representatives 
• 51 to 99% of working hours: 0 representatives 
• 100% of working hours: 0 representatives

Cost of Facility Time 

The total pay bill  is £10,246.426.21 and facility time is estimated to cost £213.  This means that 0.002% of pay is spent on facility time.