Agenda item

Neil Goddard presented the report (Agenda Item 7), which sought approval from the Schools’ Forum for the revised Terms of Reference (ToR) for the Heads’ Funding Group (HFG).

Neil Goddard explained that the revised ToR were the outcome of work undertaken by the Schools’ Forum task group, which reviewed the governance arrangements for the Schools’ Forum and the HFG. He highlighted that the HFG would now be established as a formal subgroup of the Forum, rather than operating informally. Minutes of HFG meetings would be circulated as part of the Forum agenda, and reports would include a section summarising HFG comments.

Neil Goddard outlined that HFG meetings would be scheduled further in advance of Forum meetings to allow time for reports to be updated following HFG feedback. He confirmed that the HFG would continue to play a key role in governance and that the chairing arrangements would remain within his role. The ToR would be kept under review for future meetings.

The Chair noted that there were no comments and therefore invited the Schools’ Forum to consider the recommendation to approve the revised ToR for the HFG. A proposal to approve the ToR was seconded and at the vote the motion was carried.

RESOLVED that the revised HFG ToR were approved.