The Education (Inner London Education Authority) (Transitional and Supplementary Provisions) (No. 2) Order 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order makes further transitional and supplementary provisions to facilitate the transfer of education responsibilities from the Inner London Education Authority (“ILEA”) to the inner London councils on 1st April 1990, in addition to those made by the Education (Inner London Education Authority) (Transitional and Supplementary Provisions) Order 1989 (SI 1989/46 – “the first Order”). Different provisions in the Order come into force on different dates.

Article 3 provides that–

(i) in relation to courses commencing on or after 1st April 1990, the inner London councils (as defined in section 163(2) of the Education Reform Act 1988) shall have responsibility for mandatory and discretionary local education authority awards;

(ii) the inner London councils shall be responsible for making arrangements for allowing parents to express preferences and to make appeals relating to admissions on or after 1st April 1990 to schools which they are to maintain after the abolition of ILEA;

(iii) the inner London councils shall be responsible for the determination on or after 1st September 1989 of arrangements for the admission of pupils to county and voluntary schools which they are to maintain;

(iv) the inner London councils shall be responsible for appointment of staff to teaching and non-teaching posts at such schools intended to be taken up on or after 1st April 1990;

(v) the inner London councils may apply to the Secretary of State for various grants relating to expenditure on educational services after 1st April 1990;

(vi) the inner London councils are to have responsibility for the appointment of staff to teaching and non-teaching posts intended to be taken up on or after 1st April 1990 at institutions of higher or further education which they are to maintain; and

(vii) the inner London councils are to be responsible for providing information from 1st September 1989 about the curriculum at schools which they are to maintain after the abolition of ILEA.

Article 4 provides that nothing done before 1st April 1990 by the inner London councils under this Order or the first Order shall be rendered invalid because the councils do not have an education committee established in accordance with arrangements approved by the Secretary of State, or did not receive a report from such a committee, and enables the Secretary of State to approve in advance such arrangements to come into force on that date.

Article 5 modifies sections 1 and 2 of the Education (No. 2) Act 1986 to give the inner London councils responsibility for instruments and articles of government for schools they will maintain after the abolition of ILEA, and provides that references to ILEA in instruments and articles of government of schools and institutions of further and higher education are to be construed as references to the relevant inner London council by whom the school or institution is to be maintained.

Finally, inner London councils are permitted to prepare and submit to the Secretary of State for approval schemes for financial delegation to county and voluntary schools or institutions of higher or further education which they will maintain after the abolition of ILEA, and provisions as to financial statements concerning such schemes are modified accordingly.