Records of the Independent Schools Tribunal

Division within LCO

1958-1978

Records of the Independent Schools Tribunal relating to the hearing of appeals by proprietors of such schools against notices of complaint served by the Registrar of Independent Schools are in LCO 24

Public Record(s)

English

1 series

The Education Act 1944 provided for the appointment by the Minister of Education of one of his officers as Registrar of Independent Schools and for the constitution of an Independent Schools Tribunal. The job of this tribunal was to hear appeals against notices of complaint served by the Registrar of Independent Schools on proprietors of such schools or against refusal of the minister to remove disqualifications imposed as a result of such notices.

The relevant section of the act was first brought into operation in 1957 and the tribunal's rules were formally promulgated by statutory instrument (S.I. 1958/519) in the following year. The tribunal's members are drawn from a 'legal panel' appointed by the Lord Chancellor of persons available to act as chairman when required and an 'educational panel' of persons experienced in the conduct, management or administration of schools, appointed by the Lord President of the Council. In determining appeals the tribunal consists of a chairman, being a member of the 'legal panel', and two other members, being members of the 'educational panel'.