Speaking at a fringe event at the Labour party conference, Chris Keates told delegates that government plans to exclude councils from having an input into local schools should be reversed.
"The debate now shouldn’t be about reducing the role of local authorities, actually it should be where do we increase the role of local authorities," she said.
"I think we should increase the role of local authorities in terms of staffing matters. We suffered from schools routinely ignoring statutory provisions of pay and conditions of service until [former education secretary] Ed Balls actually introduced legislation to ensure compliance and until the Labour government gave support staff the School Support Staff Negotiating Body, which of course now they’re considering getting rid of."
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