Project Headroom Update

Apologies for the blog going quiet, news on Project Headroom has been quite slow lately. If anyone has anything please do send it to the UCU email address. Substantiated facts only I'm afraid, no rumours & myths.

Jim Atherton & John Dobson went to a Headroom overarching meeting on the 14th April. The current state of play is :-

• They have achieved 140 of the 150 job losses they wanted.
• There are 10 positions still at risk and 33 staff in the ‘at risk’ groups
• The jobs are risk are:

- Health Faculty Office – 1 AR

- Languages – 1.5 Academic

- Learning Development Unit – 1 non-academic

- ILS – 2.5 carried over from Phase 1 (1 AR, 0.5 non-academic).

- CSE – 2 (1 academic, 1 academic related)

- ELS – 1 academic

- Estates – 1 non academic

• While there are no guarantees, it seems likely that these 10 will reduce considerably during the next few weeks through ‘bumping’ and redeployment.
• The 90 days minimum statutory redundancy consultation ends on Thursday 16th April.
• We have refused to end the redundancy consultation. This was not controversial and was accepted by Management. However, we have agreed that work can progress in making arrangements for the volunteers to leave. Agreeing a leaving date is the first step.