Education Act 1996

F1133 Staffing of county, controlled, special agreement and maintained special schools without delegated budgets.E+W

(1)A county, controlled, special agreement or maintained special school shall have a complement of teaching and non-teaching posts determined by the local education authority.

(2)The complement shall include—

(a)all full-time teaching posts, and

(b)all part-time teaching posts which are to be filled by persons whose only employment with the authority will be at the school.

(3)The complement shall not include any staff employed by the authority solely in connection with either or both of the following—

(a)the provision of meals;

(b)the supervision of pupils at midday.

(4)Schedule 13 has effect in relation to the staffing of county, controlled, special agreement and maintained special schools.

(5)The appointment and dismissal of staff (including teachers) at a county, controlled, special agreement or maintained special school shall be under the control of the local education authority, subject to—

(a)any provision made by the articles of government for the school in accordance with Schedule 13,

(b)section 135 and any provision made by the articles of government in accordance with that section (appointment and dismissal of clerk to governing body),

(c)sections 143 and 144 (appointment and dismissal of teachers of religious education), and

(d)in the case of a school for which there is a temporary governing body, Schedule 19 (conduct and staffing of new schools).

(6)This section is subject to section 136 (staffing of county, controlled and special agreement schools with delegated budgets).

Textual Amendments

F1Ss. 133, 134, 136-140 amended (1.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/711, reg. 2, Sch. 1