Agenda item

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

N.B. Appendix 1 features on the non-public side of the agenda.

Members considered a report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services regarding the City Schools Skills Review, City of London Academies Terms of Reference Review, and Appointments Update and the following points were made.

·         The Director of Community and Children’s Services noted that the Education Board had in 2016 approved that officers could serve as Governors of City academies. It was now recommended that officers could serve as Governors of City academies provided they were not working on a building project at that same academy.  

RESOLVED, that Members,

·         Note that officers carried out a skills audit of the governing bodies of the City’s maintained primary, co-sponsored and sponsored academies; 

·         Note that the City of London Academies Trust will be reviewing its Terms of Reference for Trust local governing bodies as outlined in Article 101 of the Articles of Association. Any changes to the Terms of Reference will be notified to the Education Board at the next appropriate meeting. 

·         Note the membership of the City schools governing bodies.

·         Approve that officers could continue to serve of Governors of City academies subject to approval from their Chief Officer, and subject the officer not being employed to deliver projects at the academy on which they serve as Governor.