Colleague Handbook

Section 4: Policies procedures and information

Managing change and redundancy

Change occurs on a variety of levels, from minor to more significant change. Although redundancy may arise as a result of a change, not every change creates a redundancy situation. Barnardo’s has a number of procedures for managing different change situations and these can be found on Inside Barnardo’s.

Periods of notice on termination

The law provides for minimum periods of notice. Your written terms and conditions of employment set out the notice that you must give to Barnardo’s when resigning from your post. Notice must be given in writing, with the reason, to the person specified or to your line manager.

Barnardo’s must give a minimum statutory period of notice as follows:

Continuous Barnardo’s Service

Minimum Notice

Four weeks or more but less than two years

One week

Two years

Two weeks

Over two years but less than twelve years

One week for each year of continuous service

Twelve years or more

Twelve weeks

Barnardo’s in many cases requires as a condition of service that the period of notice, on both sides, should be longer. Details are given in your written statement of your terms and conditions of employment.