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In the education system of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, some of the governors of state schools are elected or appointed as parent governors.
Parent governors are elected for a four-year term by parents of children attending the school.[1]: 32–33 [1] There should be two or more parent governors on the board of each school or federation of schools.[1]: 49, 51 Posts not filled by election may be appointed by the governing body; those appointed need not be parents of children currently attending the school, and can be removed from the board of governors by a majority vote there.[2] Parent governors have the same functions and responsibilities as the remainder of the governors.[3]
The post of parent governor was established following the Taylor Report (1977): A New Partnership for Our Schools recommending that parents should be represented on school governing bodies and that elections for parent governors should take place in each school.[5]
Proposed abolition
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c Governance handbook, Department for Education, January 2017
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