Purpose: For Decision
Committee: EXECUTIVE
Date: 13 AUGUST 2002
Title: INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT FOR
SCHOOLS
PORTFOLIO HOLDER - EDUCATION AND LIFELONG LEARNING
Under the terms of the School Standards and Framework Act
1998 all schools are responsible for maintaining their Instruments of
Government. Instruments of Government
are concerned with the membership of governing bodies (not with governors’
powers or procedures). It is for school
governing bodies to propose new Instruments for the approval of the Local
Education Authority. Medina House
School has submitted a new Instrument of Government for approval.
All Island schools drew up new Instruments of Government for
implementation in September 1999, as required by the School Standards and
Framework Act 1998. The Act lays down
the format of the Instrument and specifies the number of options as to the size
of the governing body. The Instrument
is the document where the formal name of the school is recorded. The Instruments for all Island schools were
considered and approved by the Panel of the Education Committee. Medina House School has submitted a request
to amend their Instrument of Government.
Medina House School is seeking to increase the number of
governors on the Governing Body. The
Schools Standards and Framework Act 1998 allows a school size of Medina House,
to have either 9, 10, 13 or 17 governors (including the Headteacher). Medina House School chose to have 10
governors. Since the approval of that
Instrument, the Governing Body is seeking to increase its size to 13 (including
the Headteacher) so that the Governing Body can function more effectively.
RECOMMENDATIONS
That the Committee approve the revised Instrument of Government for Medina House School.
Schools Standards and Framework Act 1998
|
A KAYE Head of Paid Service |
J WAREHAM Portfolio Holder for Education and
Lifelong Learning |
INSTRUMENT OF GOVERNMENT: COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
1. The name of the school is MEDINA HOUSE SCHOOL
2. The school is a community school
3. The name of the governing body is THE GOVERNING BODY OF
MEDINA HOUSE SCHOOL
4. The governing body shall consist of:
(a) 4 parent governors
(b) 3 LEA governors
(c) 1 teacher governor
(d) 1 staff governor
(e) 3 co-opted governors
(f) the head
teacher (except at any time when he has given written notice to the clerk to
the governing body of the school that he
chooses not to be a governor).
5. Total number of governors 13 (except at any time when the
head teacher has given notice as above
that he chooses not to be a governor, when the total number of governors will
be 12)
6. Subject to regulation 5(4) of the Education (School
Government) (Transition to New Framework)
Regulations 1998, this instrument of government comes into effect:
- on the
date of making for the purpose of reconstituting the governing body;
- on 1st
September 1999 for all other purposes.
7. This instrument was made by order of Isle of Wight Local
Education Authority on
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