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Vento bands (injury to feelings awards)

The Vento bands used by employment tribunals to assess injury-to-feelings awards in discrimination cases.

SeverityAward rangeNote
Lower£1,300.00 to £12,600.00less serious cases
Middle£12,600.00 to £37,700.00cases not meriting the upper band
Upper£37,700.00 to £62,900.00most serious; exceptional cases may exceed £62,900
Corroborated (secondary) Presidential guidance Great Britain in force since 2026-04-06

Checked against its sources: judicial guidance verified 2026-07-08

Scope: Applies to claims PRESENTED on/after 2026-04-06; earlier claims use the Eighth Addendum bands. Non-statutory judicial guidance (no SI exists), RPI-uprated. Scotland additionally subject to para 12 of the 2017 guidance.

Current sources

Judicial guidancePresidential Guidance (ET E&W + Scotland), NINTH Addendum, signed 2026-03-30; PDF archived at research/artifacts/Vento-bands-presidential-guidance-April-2026-addendum.pdf (URL rotates yearly)
retrieved 2026-07-08
Secondary reproductions≥2 independent reproductions matching the PDF exactly: Practical Law w-049-8281; Howes Percival 'Updated Vento Bands 2026'
retrieved 2026-07-08

History

ValueFromToStatusSources
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SeverityAward rangeNote
Lower£1,300.00 to £12,600.00less serious cases
Middle£12,600.00 to £37,700.00cases not meriting the upper band
Upper£37,700.00 to £62,900.00most serious; exceptional cases may exceed £62,900
2026-04-06—Corroborated (secondary)

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Figure ID
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Name in the API
Vento bands: injury-to-feelings awards
Record fields (source type · unit · jurisdiction · status)
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Record hash (canonical JSON, SHA-256)
sha256:212210bff64ec87e174aecda8af29cef46efe3f57be69eeb227aee20976790ef
Source snapshots (SHA-256)
Judicial guidance: sha256:dd1ff9114926db17a3c4dd05be17d906e68da829bb186f16a880d1aa579cfda2
Listed in the signed manifest
release 3.0.0 manifest · record_hashes["employment.tribunal.vento_bands"]
Machine-readable record
/v1/figures/employment.tribunal.vento_bands · current only: /v1/figures/employment.tribunal.vento_bands/current
Compiler's notes

PDF para 1 contains an apparent internal typo ('Eighth' where 'Ninth' is meant); operative bands unaffected. Sole publisher judiciary.uk — corroborated-secondary-B is the best attainable status for this source_type.