The School Organisation (Prescribed Alterations to Maintained Schools) (England) Regulations 2007

Transfer of staff

49.  Where a voluntary aided or foundation school changes category to a voluntary controlled school—

(a) the contract of employment between a person to whom this paragraph applies and the governing body has effect from the implementation date as if originally made between him and the local education authority;

(b) all the governing body’s rights, powers, duties and liabilities under or in connection with the contract of employment transfer by virtue of this paragraph to the local education authority on the implementation date; and

(c) anything done by that date by, or in relation to, the governing body in respect of that contract or the employee is deemed from that date to have been done by or in relation to the local education authority.