speckytecky Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 (edited) Apparently from 1st Sep 2015 it's going to be a requirement that School Governors' Declarations of Interests are displayed on School websites. Edited July 8, 2015 by elsiegee40 1
Steve21 Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 Yep as per the booklet of doom! 26. From 1 September 2015, governing bodies will be under a duty to publish on their website their register of interests. The register should set out the relevant business interests of governors and details of any other educational establishments they govern. The register should also set out any relationships between governors and members of the school staff including spouses, partners and relatives. 27. Governing bodies should make it clear in their code of conduct that this information will be published on their governors and, where applicable, their associate members. Any governor failing to reveal information to enable the governing body to fulfil their responsibilities may be in breach of the code of conduct and as a result be bringing the governing body into disrepute. In such cases the governing body should consider suspending the governor. Steve 1
elsiegee40 Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 It certainly is. And in most cases it will be very boring indeed. However, in some cases, those "nothing to declares" may need closer examination 1
elsiegee40 Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 Governors will have to declare if they govern more than one school as well which may make interesting reading too
speckytecky Posted July 8, 2015 Author Posted July 8, 2015 This is the word from the horse's mouth so to speak! Seems it only applies to Maintained Schools.
GrumbleDook Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 I have nothing to declare ... except my [insert comment] Hopefully it will clean up a number of areas.
XiJ Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 As a governor I have no problem with this. I do provide IT support for my governor school and just declare that at any relevant point anyway.
Steve21 Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 Think this is gonna be the funniest part The register should also set out any relationships between governors and members of the school staff including spouses, partners and relatives. Lets see how many inter-school/governor relations there are! Also I'd assume that means any headteacher etc would have to declare relations within school haha Steve
XiJ Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 Ooooooo, I know of two executive heads where this is gonna be really fun *grabs popcorn*
elsiegee40 Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 This is the word from the horse's mouth so to speak! Seems it only applies to Maintained Schools. Academies and Free Schools have to comply too so I have been told 1
FN-GM Posted July 8, 2015 Posted July 8, 2015 Academies and Free Schools have to comply too so I have been told The article Says "Academy governors have been required to publish a register since September last year." 1
elsiegee40 Posted July 9, 2015 Posted July 9, 2015 The article Says "Academy governors have been required to publish a register since September last year." Yes, we do it already... I just assumed it was in preparation.
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