User:Noyster/Parent governor

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. There should be two or more parent governors on the board of each school or federation of schools. 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. Parent governors have the same functions and responsibilities as the remainder of the governors.


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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.

Proposed abolition

 * Removing the requirement for academy schools to have them - March 2016


 * Not scrapped September 2016