Recruiting and managing non-teaching school staff

Flexible working, handling strike action, employment issues, trade union facility time, classroom support staff, school business management.

Guidance and regulation

Education staff wellbeing charter
- Detailed guide
- 8 May 2024
- Department for Education
Disqualification under the Childcare Act 2006
- Statutory guidance
- 31 August 2018
- Department for Education
Staffing and employment: advice for schools
- Guidance
- 2 October 2024
- Department for Education
Barring unsuitable individuals from managing independent schools
- Guidance
- 8 June 2022
- Department for Education
Supervision of activity with children
- Statutory guidance
- 10 September 2012
- Department for Education

School support staff body reinstated
- 10 October 2024
- Department for Education
- Press release
New support for flexible working in schools pledged at summit
- 30 October 2017
- Department for Education
- News story
拢1 million to help schools recruit high-calibre governors
- 18 March 2015
- Department for Education
- Press release
New sports coach website launched for primary schools
- 10 March 2015
- Department for Education
- Press release
Ex-military personnel to drive up standards among disengaged pupils
- 7 December 2012
- Department for Education
- Press release

Use of supply teachers in schools
- 27 September 2024
- Department for Education
- Research
School workforce in England: November 2015
- 23 March 2020
- Department for Education
- National statistics
School workforce in England: November 2014
- 23 March 2020
- Department for Education
- National statistics
School workforce in England: November 2013
- 23 March 2020
- Department for Education
- National statistics
School workforce in England: November 2011
- 23 March 2020
- Department for Education
- National statistics

Setting up the School Support Staff Negotiating Body (SSSNB)
- 11 June 2025
- Department for Education
- Open consultation
- Closing date 18 July 2025
Staffing and employment advice for schools
- 24 May 2018
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 10 February 2016
Trade union facility time in schools: review
- 16 January 2014
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 25 October 2013
Increasing flexible working in schools
- 11 December 2017
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
Vetting and barring scheme remodelling review: report and recommendations
- 1 February 2011
- Department for Education
- Policy paper