Issue - meetings
Local Authority School Governor Appointments
Meeting: 07/09/2006 - Executive Member for Children and Young People's Services and Advisory Panel (Item 18)
Local Authority School Governor Appointments
This report provides information about the current position with regard to vacancies for LA seats on governing bodies, lists current nominations for those vacancies, as detailed in Annex One, and requests the appointment, or re-appointment, of the listed nominees.
Decision:
Advice of the Advisory Panel:
That the Executive Member be advised to appoint, or re-appoint LA Governors to fill vacant seats as proposed in Annex One.
Decision of the Executive Member
RESOLVED: That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed
REASON: To progress work in this area.
Minutes:
Members considered a report which provided information about the current position with regard to vacancies for Local Authority seats on governing bodies, listed current nominations for those vacancies and requested the appointment, or re-appointment of the listed nominees.
It was noted that all governing bodies were required to reconstitute by 31 August 2006 under the terms of the School Governance (Constitution) (England) Regulations 2003. Many governing bodies had agreed to adopt a new constitution and determined the size of the new governing body. It was noted that in some cases this would result in there being fewer Local Authority places and it was important that this was considered when new LA appointments were made. The current position of each governing body was detailed in Annex One of the report.
Officers confirmed that their was now a waiting list for school governor vacancies but that is any member was aware of an interest in a position they should refer them to the Governance Service. Members expressed their thanks to the Service and for ensuring that York had a well below average of Local Authority governor vacancies.
Advice of the Advisory Panel:
That the Executive Member be advised to appoint, or re-appoint Local Authority Governors to fill vacant seats as proposed in Annex One.
Decision of the Executive Member
RESOLVED: That the advice of the Advisory Panel be accepted and endorsed.
REASON: To progress work in this area.