PAPER B
Purpose : For Decision
Committee : HUMAN
RESOURCES AND MISCELLANEOUS APPEALS SUB COMMITTEE
Date : 3
MARCH 2006
Title : APPOINTMENT
TO INDEPENDENT EDUCATION APPEAL PANELS
REPORT OF THE ACTING ASSISTANT
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
In accordance with the School Standards and Framework
Act 1998 and School Admissions Code of Practice, to establish a group of
members from which independent Appeals
Panels can be comprised and to confirm that these members may also be eligible
to be appointed by the Diocesan Education Authorities to sit on Appeals Panels
in respect of aided school appeals.
BACKGROUND
Independent Appeal Panels hear appeals brought by
parents in respect of the following:
(a) the decision of the Strategic Director of Children Services to refuse admission of a child to an individual school;
(a) a permanent exclusion of a child from a school.
In accordance with the School Standards and Framework
Act 1998 and School Admissions Code of Practice independent appeal panels must
constitute of three or five members appointed by the Local Education Authority
(LEA) and comprise of at least one from each of the following categories:
people without personal experience in the management of any school or the
provision of education in any school (disregarding experience as a school
governor or in another voluntary capacity) and from those who have experience
in education; are familiar with educational conditions in the LEA’s area; or
who are parents of registered pupils at a school.
At the beginning of the year advertisements were
placed in the local paper for suitable persons to sit on the Appeals
Panels. The Chairman of the HR &
Miscellaneous Appeals Committee and the Commissioner for Children and School
Results subsequently held interviews with all interested persons and Members
are requested that the following persons be appointed to the pool of Panel
members from which the Diocesan Education Authorities may also choose as
appropriate to sit on Appeals relating to Aided Schools.
Lay Members
Mr G Torr