Agenda item

The Schools’ Forum considered a report (agenda item six), which present a review of the membership of the Schools’ Forum. Jessica Bailiss reported that there was a requirement to review the membership and Constitution annually and that there had been no changes to the Schools’ Forum regulations, which required changes to the Constitution. 

Jessica Bailiss stated that the membership for the Schools’ Forum must reflect the proportion of pupils within each sector. Although there had been a slight increase in academies, changes in pupil numbers across the sectors were not significant enough to require a change to the composition of the Forum.

Section four of the report listed members who would reach the end of their term in the coming months. Members would be contacted individually with the action they needed to take as set out in the Constitution.

In accordance with the report Jessica Bailiss invited Members to raise any questions and approve the Membership and Constitution from September 2017.

Catie Colston informed the Schools’ Forum that when nominated for her position on the Forum, she had been the Chair of Governors at St Nicolas’ Primary School however, she had since become the Chair of Governors at Enborne Primary School and questioned whether she needed to declare this and if it would affect her position. Ian Pearson confirmed that because her new role also fell within the Primary sector there was no issue. For clarity Ian Pearson added that this would only have become an issue if a role changed to a different sector, for example from Primary to Academy where all positions were occupied.

The Chairman invited members of the Forum to vote on whether to approve the membership and Constitution of the Schools’ Forum from September 2017. Keith Harvey proposed that the recommendation within the report be approved and this was seconded by Chris Davis.

RESOLVED that the membership and Constitution from September 2017 be approved.