The £200,000 a year primary school headteacher has taken a pay cut after her eye-popping salary packet was exposed.

Isabel Ramsay, executive head at the “outstanding” Ofsted-rated Bandon Hill Primary School, took home £190,898 in 2013-14, padded out by a further £14,178 in pension contributions bringing her total to £205,076.

After she was revealed by the Sutton Guardian as the borough’s best-paid public worker in October last year, Sutton Council took action and “offered to support” the school’s governing body carry out a “further audit of its procedures” and bring her salary under more control.

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Details of the investigation were published ahead of today’s audit committee at Sutton Council.

Findings included that discretionary payments made to Mrs Ramsay exceeded the limit specified by the Teachers Pay Regulations, that insufficient information had been made available to the School Pay Committee over the management allowance, that pay decisions were made by too few people, and that educational leadership work at other schools involved a “substantial time commitment” away from Bandon Hill Primary.

here were also concerns that formal control processes should be put in place to “ensure” her time away was “not detrimental to the school”.

To help enforce this the audit report has 12 high priority recommendations agreed with Mrs Ramsey and the chairman of governors.

The first impact of this has been that the school agreed to slash her income, last year to £158k.

During 2015-16 it is expected to fall further, to a basic of £109k, although it will ultimately depend on how much the school awards her for work done elsewhere.

Last year that added extra came to £27,400.

A spokesman for Sutton Council said: “At the time when the council became aware of the headteachers salary level, we offered to support the governing body through a further audit of its procedures and controls.

“The 12 recommendations to the school are the council’s advice about the ways in which those controls and processes that the governing body have could be further improved.

We understand those recommendations were acted on by the school and we will continue to support the school with any other help it needs.”

In March 2015 Ofsted inspected the school, giving it full marks and praising Mrs Ramsay for providing “inspirational leadership” and that, together with senior leaders, she had created a school where pupils learn, thrive and flourish.

Ric Adams, Bandon Hill Primary School governor chairman, said: “Isabel Ramsay’s leadership is at the heart of the quality of education which Bandon Hill offers and which was recently judged to be outstanding by Ofsted in March 2015. All recommendations made to the governors following the audit were put in place on December 1, 2014.”