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<p>Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England
only.</p><p> </p><p>The department gives school and academy trust leaders the freedom
to decide how they recruit and deploy their non-teaching staff in schools, including
cleaners. They hold responsibility for monitoring and making decisions about their
cleaners to meet their own circumstances, in addition to having autonomy to make contract
decisions for externally-supplied cleaning staff.</p><p> </p><p>The department supports
schools to get the best value from their resources. Support is provided through the
establishment of national deals on common areas of school spending. The use of these
deals for school resourcing needs is at the discretion of school and academy trust
leaders. While the department encourages the use of its established deals, schools
are trusted to get the best value for money when hiring their staff.</p>
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