Disestablishment of Kāhui Ako roles

Your employment continues

This does NOT mean teachers in these roles lose their jobs.

A teacher holding a Kāhui Ako role will remain employed in the school in the role they held before being appointed to the Kāhui Ako role. Unless agreed otherwise the teacher will just move back to their previous teaching load.

 

Your additional salary may continue for up to a year 

The collective ensures that when a role in Kāhui Ako is disestablished the surplus staffing income protection provisions apply.

4.23.12   The salary protection provisions of subsection 3.9.9(a) will apply to teachers whose Kāhui Ako Teacher (across community) role is disestablished. If a teacher returns to, or is subsequently appointed to, a position of equal or higher remuneration than they received in the Kāhui Ako Teacher (across community) role, the salary protection no longer applies

4.24.14   The salary protection provisions of 9.8(b) or 3.9.9(a) will apply as appropriate to teachers whose Kāhui Ako Teacher (within school) role is disestablished. If a teacher returns to, or is subsequently appointed to, a position of equal or higher remuneration than they received in the Kāhui Ako Teacher (within school) role, the salary protection no longer applies.

Similar provisions in the ASTCA are under 3.32.9 and 3.33.14. 

There are three generally expected scenarios: 

• A teacher in a permanent role or in a fixed term role that was due to finish at the end of next year or later will continue to be paid their salary allowance until the end of 2026.  
• A teacher in a fixed term role otherwise ending part way through 2026 will have the salary payment until the date their role was due to end.  
• A teacher in a fixed term Kāhui Ako that is due to end this year will have no extension to their Kāhui Ako salary allowance.  

Principals in Kahui Ako Leadership Roles

The SPCA and ASPCA provide for three months’ notice when a role in Kāhui Ako Leadership role is disestablished. Your Kahui Ako salary will be paid for the lesser of three months or the remaining term of your leadership role. 

Schools will make staffing adjustments 

With the removal of the additional staffing that supported the time allowances schools will need to make staffing adjustments.

In most cases this will be managed through normal end of year staffing adjustments (e.g. reducing fixed term hours of part time teachers or not renewing fixed term positions created to cover the release time for the Kāhui Ako roles).    

This will look different for each school and each individual and we encourage you to contact your Field Officer for support and guidance in these conversations with your school. 

Limited risk of surplus staffing

In a few schools it may cause overstaffing that require a reduction of permanent positions. If so, the school must follow the surplus staffing or re-organisations processes in the collective agreement. It must be kept separate from the Kāhui Ako changes and would require a review of the whole school staffing use, not just those in Kāhui Ako roles.

If your branch is told this might be a possible outcome, please contact your local Field Officer.

Further FAQs will follow.