The Governing Body regulations require that governors are drawn from across the range of school stakeholders to present a diversity of contribution to decision-making.  Governors from the school parents and school staff are elected by those groups of stakeholders.  Such governors are required to offer a representative view as a member of the group, but not to act as a representative of the group in any negotiation sense.

Elected governors have the same status as all other categories of governor.

Regulations require at least one third of governor posts be for people with parental responsibility for a child registered at the school and up to a third for staff.  One of the staff governor positions is reserved for the Headteacher and must remain vacant if the Headteacher chooses not to be a governor.  Consult Guide to the Law, linked below, for more detail.  The structure of each particular Governing Body is required to be registered in an ‘Instrument of Governance’.

Guide to the Law Up to date guidance from the GovernorNet web site.

Guide documents on governor election regulations and a 3-step procedure, together with model paperwork, are available on our Governor Elections page.

Elected governors can have the greatest challenge to stay strategic, which is what all governors are required to do.  Tips on staying strategic are available on our Staying Strategic page.