To wonder if anyone can help me to understand teachers' maternity pay?

[camimillie]

Hi,

I started my post on September 1 of this year, hoping to start TTC in January/February for a baby born in October or November.

However, I've been looking up online and various things I've read seem to indicate that to qualify for full enhanced maternity pay you need to have worked at your school for 12 months 11 weeks before expected week of childbirth which would mean the earliest I could have a baby and qualify for full maternity pay would be December 2016.

Is this correct?

Thank you.

Does this thread help?
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_staffroom/2497638-NQT-Maternity-pay

Thanks for the link.

I'm afraid it doesn't really answer my question as it still seems unclear how long I have to have been employed by my school to qualify for the enhanced maternity package.

Were you employed by a different school within the same borough? It's to do with continuous service, and your employer is the borough so check that out first.

The TES site has a useful flowchart.

Yes, I've looked at the TES site thanks - but it isn't really clear how long you need to have been employed for.

My understanding is that it's a year plus 11 weeks, but that seems peculiar?

Unless it's an academy...

If you work for an academy then maternity rights don't transfer between different schools as the academy is your employer not the LA.

I only started on September 1 - was abroad prior to that.

Then your first assumption was right.

So to qualify for full enhanced maternity package one would have to have been employed by the school for one year and (almost, but not quite) three months?

From your op I'd read that you can get emp if you've been there a year when you're 29 weeks pregnant

That would mean that you would be around 6 months pregnant next September.

I always thought it was 12 months employment?