Agenda item

Jess Bailiss introduced the report (Agenda Item 6), which aimed to review and assess the membership and constitution, which the Schools’ Forum was required to do on an annual basis.

To begin, Jess Bailiss drew the Forum’s attention to some minor amendments within the report as follows:

• Table 2 on page 13 of the agenda – the total in column one should be 14 and the total in column two should be 6.
• Table 3 on page 14 of the agenda – the total at the bottom of column one should be 14.

Jess Bailiss explained that the Forum’s membership needed to be split to broadly reflect the pupil numbers in each phase. There had not been any changes to legislation requiring a change to the Forum’s current practice. Table 1 showed that there had been an increase in academy pupil numbers and therefore it was proposed that the membership be increased by one academy member increasing the number of schools members from 17 to 18. It was suggested that the proposed academy position be an academy governor position to reflect how the groups had been split in the past.

Section five of the report highlighted the current vacancies on the Forum and that no current Forum members were approaching the end of their term of office in 2023.

No changes were proposed to the Constitution apart from the amendments highlighted in blue in sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.4, which ensured it would reflect the membership change if approved.

Jess Bailiss reported that the proposal was for the Forum to approve the membership and the Constitution from September 2023 as set out in the report.

The Forum proposed and seconded that the recommendation set out in section 2.1 of the report be approved. At the vote the proposal was carried.

RESOLVED that the Schools’ Forum approved the membership and Constitution from September 2023. This included increasing the academy membership by one.