Strategic (Leadership and Management strand)
Safeguarding
Self Evaluation
Leaders’ engagement with the community
Staff training
Vision/Action Planning
Governor monitoring
Staff Workload
Networks and partnerships
External Consultant reports
Succession planning for staff and governors
Curriculum and Standards (Quality of Education strand)
Curriculum design (intent)
Teaching and Learning (implementation)
Data/Progress and Attainment (impact)
Assessment systems
CPD impact for staff
Pupil Premium/Sport Premium impact
Policies
Extended Services
Engaging Learning (Personal Development and Behaviour and Attitudes’ strands)
SMSC
British Values
Healthy lifestyles
Preparation for next stages
Learners’ Attitudes
Attendance and Punctuality
Relationships across school
Compliance (Leadership and Management strand)
Finance
Premises
Health & Safety
Risk Management
Pay and Staffing Budget
Date ratified by Governors: September 2019
Review date: September 2021
Author: DH
Compliance Committee (incorporating Finance, Health and Safety)
Membership
a) Governors including the Headteacher
b) The committee shall co-opt such non-governor members as deemed appropriate and shall determine their voting rights.
Quorum
The quorum should be two governors. In the event of a vote the majority of those present must be governors.
Meetings
The committee shall meet termly and at least annually.
Terms of Reference
Financial
1) To determine and review financial policy including consideration of long term planning and resourcing.
2) To develop the annual budget spending plan for presentation to the governing body taking into account Whole School Action Plan priorities.
3) To act as advisers and consultants to the governing body on financial issues. To be familiar with budget spending plans, formula funding structure and policies for financial delegation.
4) To monitor the school budget expenditure (including specific purpose grants) with reference to the annual spending plan. To make reports at least once a term to the governing body.
5) To authorise virement from one area of budget spending to another in order to respond to unexpected expenditure needs up to an agreed limit approved by the governing body.
6) To agree the level of delegation to the headteacher for the day-to-day financial management of the school.
7) To review the school’s charging and remission policy on an annual basis and make recommendations to the governing body.
8) To monitor school fund expenditure and ensure the audit of school funds for presentation to the governing body.
9) To receive and where appropriate respond to periodic audit reports of delegated funds.
10) To ensure that a register of pecuniary interests is maintained for all staff and governors.
11) To receive and consider pay recommendations from the headteacher in accordance with the school’s Pay, Appraisal and Performance Management policies.
12) To review and approve the school’s staffing structure and all recruitment activities in line with the Safer Recruitment Procedures/Policy.
13) To receive regular reports on the impact of the Pupil Premium and how this enables disadvantaged pupils to make rapid progress.
Pay
1) To draw up and review appropriately a governing body Pay Policy with due regard to the current School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions document and other appropriate guidance.
2) To determine matters relating to the pay of all staff in the school.
3) To ensure that, within budget constraints, the pay policy meets the needs of recruitment, retention and development of staff and to the resourcing of the school’s Whole School Action Plan.
4) To take into account recommendations from the nominated Performance Management governors when determining the salary of the headteacher.
Premises
1) To provide support and guidance for the headteacher on all matters relating to the school premises and grounds, including security and Health and Safety matters.
2) Annually to ensure inspection of the premises and grounds and prepare a statement of priorities for maintenance and development linked to the Whole School Action Plan for the approval of the Governing Body.
3) To propose and approve the costs and arrangements for maintenance, repairs and decoration within the budget allocation.
4) To oversee the preparation of and to monitor premises services contacts (e.g. fuel/water, cleansing, grounds maintenance).
5) To prepare a lettings and charging policy for the approval of the governing body.
Health and Safety
1) To be familiar with National and Local Health and Safety legislation and guidelines.
2) To provide support and guidance for the headteacher on all matters relating the school Health and Safety and security. 3) To participate in the development and review of school Health and Safety policies and to recommend them for adoption by the governing body. This includes the approval of risk assessments and monitoring the risk management register.
4) To monitor on behalf of the governing body that systems are in place to ensure that Health and Safety requirements and codes of practice are being implemented in the school and that activities and premises, materials and equipment used by the school do not present health and safety risks.
5) To ensure inspection of the premises and grounds (annually) and prepare a report in respect of Health and Safety matters.
6) To receive and consider matters any reports and audits completed by the School’s Health and Safety representatives or the headteacher/Senior Management arising from general inspection of the school, to identify issues that need to be addressed and to report at least once a year to governing body. This includes external audits conducted by approved third parties.
7) To make recommendations to the Resources’ Committee and/or governing body when expenditure is deemed necessary.
8) To act as advisers/consultants to the governing body on Health and Safety matters.
Staffing
1) To be involved in the development of all of the school’s policies relating to personnel matters, including:
2) To recommend them for approval by the governing body and to ensure that systems are in place to make all staff aware of these policies.
Engaging Learning Committee
Membership
a) Membership shall consist of three governors including a Deputy Headteacher
b) The committee shall co-opt such non-governor members deemed necessary and determine their voting rights.
Quorum
The quorum should be two governors of which the Deputy Headteacher must be one.
Meetings
The committee shall meet at least once per term and otherwise as required, particularly when recruitment of new staff is necessary.
Terms of Reference
Personal Development and Behaviour and Attitudes
1) To be aware of and advise the Governing Body on the provision for British Values.
2) To monitor the preparation for pupils in their next stage of learning.
3) To monitor the school’s policies on discipline and behaviour so that pupil attitudes and behaviour are conducive to learning.
4) To monitor the promotion of healthy lifestyles across school.
5) To be aware of and advise the Governing Body on the provision for SMSC across school and how this is evidenced both in school and the wider community.
6) To monitor the relationships across school.
Attendance and Punctuality
1) To report on all aspects of attendance and punctuality and monitor our performance.
Curriculum and Standards’ Committee
Membership
a) Membership shall consist of three governors including a Deputy Headteacher.
b) The committee shall co-opt such non-governor members deemed necessary and determine their voting rights.
Quorum
The quorum should be two governors of which the Deputy Headteacher must be one.
Meetings
The committee shall meet at least once per term and otherwise as required, particularly when recruitment of new staff is necessary.
Terms of Reference
Strategic Committee Committee
Membership
a) Membership shall consist of other committee chairs and the school leads.
b) The committee shall co-opt such non-governor members deemed necessary and determine their voting rights.
Quorum
The quorum should be four members.
Meetings
The committee shall meet at least once per term and otherwise as required.
Terms of Reference
Complaints and Complaints Appeals Committees
Membership
1. The Complaints Committee shall comprise at least three members drawn from the full Governing body.
2. No member of the Complaints appeal committee may be on the Complaints Committee.
3. The Complaints appeal committee shall have no fewer members of the governing body than the Complaints committee.
Quorum
The quorum of each committee shall be three governors.
Meetings
The committees will meet as and when required and within the timescale set down in the governing body’s Complaints Policy and Procedures.
Terms of Reference
The Complaints Committee shall act on behalf of the governing body:
The Complaints Appeals committee shall act on behalf of the governing body:
Members of Complaints and Complaints Appeals Committees should be familiar with good practice and procedures to be followed in governing body hearings.
Notes:
Governor with a Particular Interest in Special Educational Needs/Disabled Pupils
The remit for his role should include:
In order to do this the SEND governor will need to do the following:
The SEND governor could also:
Theme Team Governors
Purpose
To keep the governing body informed of standards achieved and the resource needs of the curriculum areas in order to maintain and raise standards.
Theme Team Remit
To receive termly Theme Team Leader bullet point evaluations in order to:
Safeguarding Governor
The child Protection Governor will be the Chair of the governing body.
(Pupil) Discipline Committee
This is a statutory committee as defined in the Education (School Government) (England) Regulations 1999. These regulations determine the composition of such committees, the key functions and the arrangements for clerking.
The arrangements for and proceedings of this committee follow certain specific guidelines as specified in DfEE Circular 10/99.
Composition and Quorum
All Governors (other than staff) will form a pool from which 3 governors will meet when considering particular exclusions. The quorum for a meeting is 3. The headteacher may not be a member of this committee.
Terms of Reference
To review the use of exclusion within the school including the consideration of the exclusion of pupils for periods in excess of five school days or where a pupil would miss an opportunity to take a public examination.
Appointment of Chair
The governors attending will decide the Chair at each meeting of the committee.
Clerk
A clerk will be requested from the Governor Support Team as the Clerk of this Committee may not be a governor or member of the committee or the headteacher though there is provision for the committee to appoint one of its members for a meeting which the clerk is unable to attend.
Minutes
A written record of the meetings of the committee will be submitted to the following meeting of the full Governing Body.
Convening meetings
A meeting shall be convened at the request of the Chair or the Headteacher in line with guidance in DfEE Circular 10/99 and subsequent DfEE guidance.
Staff Dismissal and Dismissal Appeal Committees
(These committees are a statutory requirement*)
Staff Dismissal Committee
Composition
Not less than 3 governors drawn from the full Governing body who are not disqualified by being members of staff or by having an interest requiring them to withdraw. The Headteacher may not be a member of this committee. The Chair of this Committee will be appointed on its first sitting and reviewed annually.
Quorum: Three governors
Terms of Reference
Minutes
A written record of the meeting will be circulated to all Governors other than staff.
Convening meetings
A meeting shall be convened at the request of the Chair, the Headteacher, or any two Governors. Every member of the committee and the Headteacher shall be given at least 7 days clear notice of the meeting.
Staff Dismissal Appeal Committee
Composition
Quorum
Not less than the number of governors who participated in the relevant staff dismissal committee hearing, with a minimum of 3.
Terms of Reference
To hear any appeal in respect of a decision taken by the Staff Dismissal Committee.
* The Clerk to these committees may not be a governor or a member of the committee though, in the absence of the appointed Clerk, the committee may appoint one of their number for that meeting.
Performance Management Governors and Review Officer
The governing body will appoint a minimum of two governors, and preferably three, to:
The Governing Body will appoint a Review Officer to deal with any complaints made by the Headteacher.
The Review Officer will be the Chair of the governing body where s/he has not been one of the Performance Management governors.
Teachers and other staff working at the school may not be the Performance Management governors or the Review Officer.
Training Co-ordinator Governor
The role of the Training Co-ordinator governor should be to take a lead responsibility for ensuring that governing body training and development takes place.
The remit for the Training Co-ordinator Governor should include:
Taking the lead on the development of school based resources for governors which may include: