Issue - meetings

Report CEF23034

The report provided an overview of the representation on the Schools’ Forum.  The Head of Children, Education and Families Finance introduced the report, explaining that the Constitution was reviewed every few years and would go on to be considered by the Children, Education and Families PDS Committee and ratified by the Portfolio Holder.

The Schools’ Forum discussed proposals to reduce the Membership by two, removing one Governor/Trustee member from both Primary and Secondary. This proposal reflected the difficulty in obtaining a full cohort of membership and the changes proposed would help to ensure that meetings remained quorate. It was noted that this proposal would maintain the schools’ membership at 70%, which was above the DfE guidance of two thirds of the overall membership being from the Schools’ area.

The Head of Children, Education and Families Finance confirmed that following the implementation of the changes, which reduced the Membership of the Schools’ Forum from fourteen to twelve, five vacancies would remain on the Forum.

Referring to Paragraph 6.2 of the Schools’ Forum Constitution, the Forum also agreed to move the date of the election of the Chairman and Vice-Chairman to the first meeting of the municipal year, in June.

In response to a question, the Head of Children, Education and Families Finance confirmed that representation on the Schools’ Forum was based on pupil numbers.

RESOLVED: That

1.  The Membership of the Schools’ forum be reduced by two, removing one Governor/Trustee member from both Primary and Secondary.

2.  The election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman take place each year at the first meeting of the new municipal year.