Correspondence

Letter from Lord Nash to directors of children’s services (DCSs)

Lord Nash writes to all DCSs on their role in supporting maintained schools to reconstitute their governing body.

• From: Department for Education and Lord Nash
• Published: 3 October 2014

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Documents

Letter from Lord Nash to directors of children’s services (DCSs)

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Details

This open letter from Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools Lord Nash draws attention to the:

• opportunity to improve school governance created by the requirement that all maintained schools are constituted under the amended 2012 Constitution Regulations by 1 September 2015
• importance of nominating high-quality local authority governors without regard to political affiliation
• importance of local authorities promoting informed and effective elections for parent and staff governors

Published 3 October 2014