1 January 2026
NARF Sheffield and Rotherham Group Meeting
May we wish you all a Happy New Year. The next quarterly meeting of the Sheffield and Rotherham Group will be held at 7.30 pm, on Tuesday, 20th January 2026, in the Ground Floor Community Room at South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Headquarters, Eyre Street, Sheffield S1 3FG. How to gain access to the HQ Car Park and the Meeting Room are included in this downloadable guidance
If you have any items you wish to include on the agenda, please email us at narfsouthyorkshire@gmail.com .
27 November 2025
Public Sector Pensions Increase – April 2026
The Public Sector Pensions Increase (April 2026) is expected to be 3.8%
Each year, public sector pensions are increased by “inflation” in April. Whilst technically this happens through legislation (the Pensions Increase (Review) Order 2025 was this year’s legislation), it’s based on the CPI (Consumer Prices Index) from the previous September, announced in October. This applies to all deferred pensions, pensions already being paid* and the new CARE (Career Average Revalued Earnings) schemes, like the NHS 2015 , Civil Service Alpha and LGPS 2014 schemes.
*Legacy (Final Salary) schemes receive a proportion of the increase in the April following the first payment, based on the number of months of the year to April since the retirement date. There’s more information in the House of Commons Library Research Briefing, including the change from RPI to CPI in 2011.
11 November 2025
Examination Invilgilators - Casual Contract Sheffield
Are any of our members able to assist Suzanne Baxter, Exams Officer, Bradfield School
She is seeking Exam Invigilators and have advertised on the TES website but has not had many applicants.
At present they have four ex-Police personnel on the Exams Team, who found out about the role from their local branch of NARPO.
As school budgets are incredibly tight, they cannot pay to advertise so widely, so they are looking to the community and word-of-mouth to recruit.
For further information also visit: Exams Invigilator - Casual Contract, Sheffield - Tes Jobs
Original message from:
Suzanne Baxter
Exams Officer
National Centre No (NCN) 36536
Bradfield School
Kirk Edge Road
Worrall
Sheffield S35 0AE
0114 2863 861 ext 5014
Email: SBaxter@bradfield.sheffield.sch.uk