Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009

Section 227

Schedule 15 The School Support Staff Negotiating Body

Constitution

1 (1) The SSSNB is to be constituted in accordance with arrangements made by the Secretary of State.

(2) Before making or revising arrangements under sub-paragraph (1), the Secretary of State must consult—

(a) the prescribed school support staff organisations, and

(b) the prescribed school support staff employer organisations.

(3) References in this Schedule to the SSSNB’s constitutional arrangements are to arrangements made under sub-paragraph (1).

(4) References in this Schedule to the prescribed organisations are to the organisations prescribed under sub-paragraph (2).

Membership

2 (1) The SSSNB’s constitutional arrangements must provide for the members of the SSSNB to include persons representing the interests of—

(a) the prescribed organisations;

(b) the Secretary of State.

(2) The arrangements must also provide for the members of the SSSNB to include a person appointed to chair the SSSNB.

(3) The arrangements must provide for that person to be a person who, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, does not represent the interests of—

(a) a school support staff organisation,

(b) a school support staff employer organisation,

(c) the Secretary of State, or

(d) any other person or organisation represented on the SSSNB.

(4) The arrangements may provide for the members of the SSSNB to include other persons who do not represent the interests of—

(a) school support staff organisations, or

(b) school support staff employer organisations.

Proceedings

3 (1) The SSSNB’s constitutional arrangements must not provide for a member of the SSSNB to be entitled to vote in respect of its proceedings unless the member is a person representing the interests of any of the prescribed organisations.

(2) Subject to sub-paragraph (1), the arrangements may make provision about the proceedings of the SSSNB (including provision allowing the SSSNB to determine its own proceedings).

Administrative support

4 The SSSNB’s constitutional arrangements may make provision about the provision of administrative support to the SSSNB.

Annual reports

5 (1) The SSSNB’s constitutional arrangements must provide for the SSSNB to prepare a report, in respect of each successive period of 12 months beginning on the day on which it is established, about the performance of its functions in that period.

(2) The arrangements may—

(a) require the SSSNB to send copies of the report to specified persons;

(b) require the SSSNB otherwise to publish the report in a specified manner.

Fees and expenses

6 The SSSNB’s constitutional arrangements may make provision about—

(a) the payment of fees to the person appointed to chair the SSSNB;

(b) the payment of expenses incurred by the SSSNB.

House of Commons disqualification

7 In the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24), in Part 3 of Schedule 1 (other disqualifying offices), at the appropriate place insert—

• “Person appointed to chair the School Support Staff Negotiating Body.”

Interpretation

8 For the purposes of this Schedule—

(a) a “school support staff organisation” is an organisation that, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, represents the interests of school support staff;

(b) a “school support staff employer organisation” is an organisation that, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, represents the interests of employers of school support staff;

(c) “specified” means specified in the SSSNB’s constitutional arrangements.