Frequently Asked Question

The Department currently provides payroll services via two payroll systems, CASES21 for school council employees and eduPay for Department employees. eduPay is a shared service that is a widely used, robust, proven payroll solution used by the Department of Education and Training and other government departments.
The Department, in conjunction with a number of schools, undertook a detailed review to improve the payroll systems and processes for school local payroll. This review found that as usage of CASES21 for school payroll increased, so did the amount of manual intervention required to complete payments for school employees.
Recognising that schools already use and are quite familiar with eduPay, the review found that extending the functionality of eduPay to cater for school council employees, would:

• provide a specialised and robust payroll system in eduPay;
• reduce the manual intervention required by schools for employee payments; and
• reduce administrative burden by automating the taxation, superannuation and reporting obligations of schools and employees.

eduPay has now been extended to provide the necessary functionality for the payment of school council employees, also known as school local payroll. As each school moves from using CASES21 for school local payroll to using eduPay, the payroll functionality in CASES21 will be made 'read only'. You will be able to view historic information but will not be able to process any new payroll.
In July 2017, the payroll functionality in CASES21 will be made 'read only' for all schools.