6 | YOUR CIPP
Policy
Welcome to the latest update on what the CIPP’s policy and research team team has been involved in, on behalf of you, our members, and the wider payroll profession and better than ever. An amazing venue with even better sessions and content. Mat took a day away from his busy secondment to join the policy team at the event. Mat hosted the ‘Ask the experts’ session, with Sam and the recently appointed Advisory Service Team Leader, Chevonne Wild. Sam and Chevonne were delighted to answer delegates’ questions. Sam also delivered another SSP update to delegates. With SSP being relatively unchanged for the last 40 years, the upcoming reform is a big change. It’s our mission to upskill the profession and ensure we support pay professionals to remain compliant. The Payroll Insights Surveys are open and ready for you to respond to We’ve produced three surveys, as follows: l pay professionals l in-house l outsourced. We need as many people as possible to complete the pay professionals survey, as this gives us an insight into working arrangements, salaries, job responsibilities, locations and education levels in the profession. Then, if you’re in a senior position, please respond as an organisation, and choose either the in-house or outsourced survey, the one that best fits your company. If you offer both outsourced services and in-house functions, you’re free to respond to both if you have access to data on each separately. You can complete the two surveys relevant to you, here: https://ow.ly/ mjT950Yr73N.
T he CIPP were delighted to welcome Georgie Ward to the team at the start of March. Georgie was thrown straight in at the deep end, attending her very first event on her second day at Pay Live Manchester. It was great to see so many of our members eager to meet Georgie and welcome her to the role. Following two years of being part of the policy team as a Policy and Research Officer, Sarah Smith moved over to our Advisory Service team from 1 April. Sarah is looking forward to continuing to support our members in her new role, and we wish her the very best of luck. Events BeConnected This year’s BeConnected events were another great success. The live event was held in London after the Annual General Meeting or ‘AGM’. It was great to see a room of both familiar and new faces ready to enjoy the sessions. Sarah Smith delivered the policy team’s legislative update, covering what’s ahead for the upcoming tax year and some of the bigger changes due to be implemented in future years, including the mandatory payrolling of benefits. After Paul Chamberlain’s ever-popular employment law update, Sam delivered an update on the overhaul of the statutory sick pay (SSP) legislation coming into force from 6 April 2026. Pay Live The newly renamed Pay Live event was held at Manchester United’s football stadium, Old Trafford. This year was bigger
Your policy team
Mathew Akrigg MCIPPdip MAAT Policy and Research Officer (Currently on secondment at HM Revenue and Customs)
Samantha O’Sullivan ChFCIPPdip Policy and Advisory Lead
Georgie Ward MCIPPdip Policy and Research Officer
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