
The Local Education Authority (LEA) or Local Authority (LA) is an educational system used widely throughout Waterloo Road Comprehensive School/Waterloo Road High School and throughout other schools also.
The LEA was responsible for the closure of the Rochdale Waterloo Road in Series 7, following which some pupils and staff moved to a new Waterloo Road in Greenock, which was operated privately by Lorraine Donnegan until it was handed over to Greenock's LEA towards the end of Series 8.
Members[]
- Heather Davenport - Inspector (Series 1 Episode 6 - Series 1 Episode 8)
- Nigel Hinchcliffe - Governor (Series 1 Episode 8 - Series 3 Episode 16)
- Lyndsay Woodham - Associate Headteacher (Series 2 Episode 9)
- Ria Cheetham - Advisor (Series 3 Episode 3 - Series 3 Episode 7)
- Rachel Mason (formerly) - Associate Headteacher (Series 3 Episode 7)
- Ralph Mellor (formerly) - Chair of Governors (Series 4 Episode 1 - Series 4 Episode 5)
- Ms Fellows - Inspector (Series 4 Episode 8)
- Bernadette Callaghan - Representative (Series 4 Episode 13)
- Jennifer Headley - Representative (Series 5 Episode 5 - Series 5 Episode 10)
- Karl Johnson - Representative (Series 7 Episode 2)
- Richard Whitman - Director (Series 7 Episode 5 - Series 7 Episode 10)
- Alison Drew - Inspector (Series 7 Episode 10)
- Alan Dixon - Director (Series 7 Episode 28 - Series 7 Episode 30)
- Robert Bain - Director (Series 8 Episode 27 - Series 9 Episode 20)
- Victor Marsland - Managing inspector (Series 10 Episode 18)
- Erica Thorne - Representative (Series 11 Episode 1 - Series 11 Episode 7)