Departmental advice for school leaders, governing bodies, academy trusts and local authorities was issued this week by the Department for Education (October 2018)
Staffing and Employment Advice for Schools, October 2018, provides consistency in the information available to all schools in support of their handling of staffing and employment matters, the departments statutory Guidance on Managing Staff Employment in Schools has been withdrawn. Governors and headteachers of maintained schools, and local authorities no longer need to have regard to this guidance. Instead, the DfE expect employers in all schools to make use of this new non-statutory guidance, and the sources of help it identifies, when carrying out staffing and employment duties.
