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The Education (Modification of Enactments Relating to Employment) Order 1989

State schools

Further and higher education

Dismissal

Employment terms and conditions

Trade unions

King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2016-04-28

EDUCATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

This Order modifies various statutory provisions relating to employment to take account of the requirement contained in the Education Reform Act 1988 for local education authorities to delegate financial management of schools and institutions of higher or further education to their respective governing bodies. While such governing bodies have the responsibility for financial management of their school or institution, they also have powers as to the appointment, suspension, discipline and dismissal of staff at the school or institution, although the local education authority remains the employer of those staff.