Buxton Cluster Governors' Forum

4th meeting held on Thu 23rd April 2009 at St Anne's (Minutes of the meeting can be found here)

The informal exploratory meeting of the Buxton Clusters Governors' Forum was held on the 24 June 2008.

1. The outcome of that meeting was that the Forum could exchange good practice and experiences; answer queries about governance and procedures; answer questions about concerns - "we have a problem...."; training by invited experts; an email group for exchange of ideas and questions.
2. It was agreed that the Forum must not duplicate other provision for school governors.
3. Meetings would be held once per term, rotate around the schools and that the host school would organise and chair that meeting.
4. Every Governing Body can send 2 representatives to a meeting, and a meeting would not be longer than one-and-a half hours.

The 3rd meeting of the Buxton Governors' Forum took place on Thursday 29 January 2009 at 7.30pm in the Buxton Infants School. The 3 agenda items for the meeting was: DSGA - what is it? Governors' Self-Evaluation and Anti-bullying.