http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/1989/2406

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The Education Reform(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

School admissions

School governance, management and finance

School welfare, behaviour and attendance

Special educational needs and additional support

Attendance and truancy

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2020-06-18

NORTHERN IRELAND

In this Order—Part II sets out the general duty of the Department in relation to education;Part III makes provision for the curriculum in grant-aided schools and for the establishment and functions of the Northern Ireland Curriculum Council and the Northern Ireland Schools Examinations and Assessment Council;Part IV regulates the admission of children to grant-aided schools;Part V provides for the financing by boards of controlled and maintained schools and for the delegation to the Boards of Governors of those schools of the management of all or part of the school’s budget share and of certain responsibilities in relation to staff and makes new provision for the funding of voluntary grammar schools;Part VI provides for the establishment and management of grant-maintained integrated schools and controlled integrated schools;Part VII restates the functions of boards in relation to further and higher education, makes new provision for the management of institutions of further education, provides for the financing by boards of institutions of further education and for the delegation to the governing bodies of such institutions of the management of the institution’s budget and of certain responsibilities in relation to staff;Part VIII makes provision in relation to the management of grant-aided schools and regulates the making of charges in such schools;Part IX provides for the constitution and functions of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools;Part X contains miscellaneous provisions relating to education.

The Education Reform(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

The Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

art. 13(3)(b)

The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015

Sch. 12

Pt. 1

art. 2(2)

PART IXTHE COUNCIL FOR CATHOLIC MAINTAINED SCHOOLS

Employment of teachers by the Council143

1

The Council may—

a

employ all such teachers as are required on the staffs of Catholic maintained schools;

b

with the approval of the Department, employ teachers (to be called “supply teachers”) for the purposes of temporarily filling vacancies which may arise in the staffs of Catholic maintained schools.

2

Supply teachers employed by the Council may, with the approval of the Council, work in a controlled school, a voluntary school other than a Catholic maintained school or a grant-maintained integrated school if so requested by the managers of that school.

3

Within such time after the appointed day as the Department may direct, the Council shall prepare and submit to the Department a scheme providing for the procedures to be followed by—

a

the Council;

b

the diocesan education committees established under paragraph 3 of Schedule 8; and

c

the Boards of Governors of Catholic maintained schools,

in relation to the appointment of teachers under paragraph (1).

4

Before preparing a scheme under paragraph (3) the Council shall consult the Board of Governors of every Catholic maintained school.

5

In preparing a scheme under paragraph (3) the Council shall take into account any guidance given by the Department, after consultation with the Council and such other persons as appear to the Department to be concerned, as to the provisions it regards as appropriate for inclusion in a scheme under that paragraph.

6

A scheme under paragraph (3) shall require the Council to appoint a panel of assessors in relation to each diocesan education committee and shall make provision for members of that panel to give advice and assistance to the diocesan education committee or the Board of Governors of a Catholic maintained school in relation to any functions of that committee or Board under the scheme.

7

The Department may, after making such modifications (if any) in a scheme submitted to it by the Council as after consultation with the Council it considers necessary or expedient, approve the scheme.

8

It shall be the duty of the bodies mentioned in paragraph (3) to give effect to the provisions of a scheme under that paragraph which has been approved by the Department.

9

Where—

a

the Council fails to submit a scheme to the Department under paragraph (3) by the date directed by the Department; or

b

it appears to the Department that a scheme submitted by the Council as required by that paragraph does not accord with any guidance given by it for the purposes of this Article and cannot be made to do so merely by modifying it,

the Department may, after consultation with the Council and such other persons as appear to the Department to be concerned, make a scheme which shall be treated for the purposes of paragraphs (8) and (10) as if it had been prepared by the Council and approved by the Department under this Article.

10

The Council may at any time, and shall if the Department so directs, prepare and submit to the Department a revised scheme or an amendment to the existing scheme and paragraphs (4) to (9) (except (9)(a)) shall apply in relation to any such revised scheme or amendment as they apply in relation to the scheme.