Subsection (1) allows the School Support Staff Negotiating Body, with the Secretary of State’s approval, to issue guidance relating to an agreement ratified by regulations or an agreement which prescribed people are required to have regard to.
	Subsection (2) allows the Secretary of State to issue guidance relating to an agreement ratified by regulations; an agreement which prescribed people are required to have regard to; regulations made otherwise than in the terms of an agreement or, subject to subsection (3), training and career progression.
	Subsection (3) provides that the Secretary of State may only issue guidance in relation to training and career progression where they have had regard to the School Support Staff Negotiating Body’s report on the matter, save where it has failed to submit that report by a specified date.
	Subsection (4) provides that local authorities, governing bodies of schools maintained by local authorities and proprietors of academies must have regard to guidance issued under this section.
Part 3: Pay and Conditions in Particular Sectors Chapter 1: School Support Staff New section 148P Guidance