Busines Name

•To determine the strategic direction of the school.
•To monitor and evaluate the performance of the school by receiving reports from the Head Teacher.
•To agree constitutional matters, including procedures where the governing body has discretion.
•To delegate items to the appropriate committee.
•To receive reports and ratify recommendations from committees or from individual governors.
•To consider business provided by the LA.
•To produce and approve the School Profile (in conjunction with the Curriculum and Pupils Committee).
•To investigate financial irregularities
•To agree selection panel for Head Teacher and Deputy Head appointment.
•To suspend or end suspension of Head Teacher.
•To draw up the instrument of government and any amendments thereafter.
•To appoint or remove the Chair and Vice Chair.
•To appoint or dismiss the Clerk to the Governors.
•To hold at least 3 governing body meetings a year.
•To set up a register of Governor Business Interests.
•To consider whether or not to exercise delegation of functions to individuals or committees.
•To recruit new members as vacancies arise and to appoint new governors where appropriate.
•To establish the committees of the governing body and their terms of reference.
•To appoint the Chair of any committee (if not delegated to the committee itself).
•To suspend a governor.
•To manage the school budget, consider the annual budget plan, approve the budget, consider and approve any proposed revisions to the budget plan.
•Decide whether to delegate their powers to spend the delegated budget to the head teacher if so establish financial limits of delegated authority.
•To approve the first formal budget plan of the financial year.
•To ensure a policy review cycle is in place.
•Any items which individual governing bodies may wish to include.