Agenda item

Town Clerk (on behalf of the Post Implementation Governance Review Working Party).

The Board considered a report of the Town Clerk (on behalf of the Post Implementation Governance Review Working Party) relative to the Board’s comments on the governance arrangements introduced last year and the impact that they may have had on the operation of the Board.

The Town Clerk highlighted that Governors were only requested to comment on those changes that had affected this Board and that Court of Common Council Governors would be written to individually and given a separate opportunity to comment on the governance review as a whole.

The Chairman reported that, as recommended under the governance review, the three City School Boards had now established a Working Party comprising key members from each Board (the Chairman and Deputy Chairman) to discuss important issues of common interest. He stated that this had been a success with a recent example of this being the meeting between all three Heads and three Chairmen to discuss the Teaching Staff Pay Claim.

A Governor questioned whether this Board was still content with its size. The Board felt that the number of Governors on the Board was adequate and had served them well for a number of years now.

The Board were informed that there had been some discussion around paragraph ‘J8’ of the Governance Review at the City of London School for Girls Board meeting last week and that they had suggested that a limit be placed on the number of Governors able to sit on more than one Board at any given time. The Board stated that they were happy to let the arrangements under the Governance Review stand pointing out that it had been of great benefit for the Chairmen of each Board to sit on the other two Boards as ex-officio Governors and share their experiences.

RESOLVED – That the Governance Review Working Party be informed that the Board of Governors of the City of London School are content with the arrangements for the Three City School Boards as set out within the Governance Review agreed in March 2011.