Summary and Background Territorial Coverage Part 1:  Provision for New Legal Frameworks Chapter 2 of Part 1: Exemptions related to school performance
8.These provisions will allow, subject to regulations, greater autonomy for governing bodies of qualifying schools over certain elements of teachers’ pay and conditions and the national curriculum. The criteria to define qualifying schools, and the specific areas where greater flexibility will be permitted, including which flexibilities will apply by right and which by discretion, will be set out in regulations.