SCHEDULE 8Modification of the Staffing Regulations

2.  In regulation 4, for paragraph (1) substitute—

(1) A governing body and an authority must exercise their respective functions under these Regulations and any other enactment with a view to ensuring that there is employed, or engaged otherwise than under contracts of employment, a staff suitable and sufficient in numbers for the purpose of securing the provision of education appropriate to the ages, abilities, aptitudes and needs of the pupils having regard to any arrangements for the utilisation of the services of staff employed or engaged otherwise than at the federation or federated school in question..