Agenda and minutes

(1)       Mrs V J Dagger moved, seconded by Miss S J Carey that Mr R J Parry be elected Chairman for the meeting.

                                                Carried with no opposition.

(2)       Mr R J Parry thereupon took the Chair.

RESOLVED that the Minutes of the meeting held on 28 June 2013 are correctly recorded and that they be signed by the Chairman.

Friday, 7 February 2014

Friday, 2 May 2014

Friday, 27 June 2014

Friday, 3 October 2014

Friday, 21 November 2014

(1)       The Committee noted its meeting dates in 2014:-

            Friday, 7 February 2014;

            Friday, 2 May 2014;

            Friday, 27 June 2014;

            Friday, 3 October 2014;

            Friday, 21 November 2014.

(2)       The Panel also noted that Selection and Member Services Committee had agreed that meetings of the Panel should be webcast.  The Panel therefore asked that the Chairman of the Panel write to the Chairman of Selection and Member Services Committee expressing the Panel’s strong reservations on the appropriateness of broadcasting its meetings.

(3)       RESOLVED that:-

(a)        the dates of the Governor Appointments Panel meetings in  2014 be noted; and

(b)       the Chairman be requested to write to the Chairman of Selection and Member Services Committee on the Panel’s behalf expressing its strong reservations on the appropriateness of broadcasting its meetings.

(1)       The Panel noted that Mr M Carr’s administrative details had been completed on time but had not been included in the papers for the previous meeting of the Panel. It therefore agreed to back date his appointment to the Governing Body of The North School to June 2013. 

(2)       The Panel noted that one of the candidates was the grandparent of children at The North School.  As this did not breach Guideline 2 for Appointments, there were no grounds not to re-appoint. The Panel considered that there might be a case for extending the Guideline from being a parent of a child at a school to having a close family relationship. It therefore requested that a report on this particular Guideline be presented to a future meeting of the Panel.

(3)       The School Governance Officer informed the Panel that Ms M Cartwright’s attendance at The Kings Farm Primary School Governing Body meetings had been 83%.  It therefore confirmed her re-appointment.

(4)       The Panel agreed by 4 votes to 0 with 1 abstention not to renew Mr A Ebataleye’s appointment to the Governing Body of South Avenue Infant School as his attendance continued to be below the required level despite an exception having been made when he had previously been re-appointed in October 2009.   

(5)       RESOLVED that:-

(a)               the appointments of Authority Governors to Primary, Secondary, Special Schools, Pupil Referral Units, the Pool of Additional Governors and nominations to non-Authority Academies be agreed as set out in the Appendix to these Minutes; and

(b)       A report on Guideline 2 be presented to a future meeting of the Panel as set out in (2) above.