The Education (School Government) Regulations 1989

PART IV SELECTION PANELS FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF HEAD TEACHERS AND DEPUTY HEAD TEACHERS

General

28.  This part shall apply in relation to any selection panel constituted in accordance with the provision made by the articles of government for any county, controlled, special agreement or maintained special school by virtue of section 36(1) of, or paragraph 22 of Schedule 2 to, the 1986 Act.

Proceedings of Selection Panel

29.—(1) The proceedings of a selection panel shall be under the control of the panel and any question coming or arising before such a panel shall be decided by a majority of its members (including any not voting on the question), with no member of the panel having a second or casting vote.

(2) Meetings of such panels shall be requisitioned by the local education authority concerned as occasion may require: Provided that the authority shall give the governing body of the school reasonable notice of any such meeting.

(3) Any question whether a person who is neither a member of such a panel nor the chief education officer of the local education authority concerned (or a member of his department nominated by him), should be entitled to attend any proceedings of the panel (including interviews), shall be decided by the panel. PART V POWER OF LOCAL EDUCATION AUTHORITY TO ACT WITHOUT CONSULTING GOVERNING BODY

Exclusion of pupils from school

30.  Where–

(a) a pupil has been excluded from a school in circumstances in which that pupil would, as a result of his exclusion from the school, lose an opportunity to take any public examination; and

(b) the local education authority concerned wish to consult the governing body of the school with a view to exercising, as a matter of urgency, any power vested in the authority (by virtue of section 24 or 25 of the 1986 Act) of directing the head teacher of the school to reinstate the pupil, but are unable to contact the chairman or vice-chairman of the governing body;

the authority may direct the head teacher to reinstate the pupil without consulting the governing body.

Appointment of teachers at certain schools

31.  Where, in the case of any county, controlled, special agreement or maintained special school, a local education authority–

(a) are minded to appoint a particular person in their employ to fill a teaching post at the school in accordance with the procedure laid down by virtue of section 38(4) of the 1986 Act, or in accordance with that procedure as applied in relation to new schools by paragraph 24(1) of Schedule 2 to that Act, (the authority having had regard to any specification provided by the governing body of the school under that procedure); and

(b) require (in accordance with that procedure) to consult the governing body of the school with a view to appointing that person to that post as a matter of urgency, but are unable to contact the chairman or vice-chairman of the governing body;

the authority may proceed with the appointment of that person to that post without consulting the governing body.