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What is a Parent Council?

A Parent Council is a body which:

• enables parents to meet, share ideas and feed back to the

school,

• gives parents a voice and enables them to inform the decision

making process,

• helps further develop a partnership between parents and

school,

• consults parents and advises the governing body of parents’

views.

What is a Parent Council?

Key outcomes from established Parent Councils include:

• Improvement in information sent to parents
• Parents gain a greater understanding of school decision-making

processes

• Governors gain a greater understanding of views of parents
• Increase in number and range of opportunities for parents to

communicate with schools

• Development/Improvement of area for parents on school

website

• Number of consultative meetings held involving parents
• Wider range of parents involved in school life

Lime Tree Primary School Parent Council Terms of Reference - 1

Role

• To provide input to the governors on specific agenda items in the upcoming Full Governors Meeting
• To raise issues and give feedback on any items that they feel would contribute to the well being and

education of the children at the school. Reporting

• The Parent Council will report in to the Full Governors Body.

Authority

• The Parent Council does not have any delegated or inherited authority from the Governors or the

School. Membership Membership of the Parent Council will comprise:

• 1 Full Parent Governor (where possible)
• 1 Staff Governor
• 2 Parents from the provision (one parent at each meeting)
• 1 Parent from each of the mainstream classes (co-representing the year group - so only one parent

representative from each year in attendance at each meeting)

Lime Tree Primary School Parent Council Terms of Reference - 2

Chair

• In the absence of the chairperson, the meeting will be chaired by the Teacher Governor.

Quorum

• The quorum for any Parent Council Meeting will be at least 1 Full Governor and 4 Parents.

Meetings

• There will be a minimum of 3 meetings a year.
• Meetings should be held at least 2 weeks in advance of the Full Governors Body Meeting.
• All meetings must be minuted and the minutes circulated to the Full Governors Body within a week
• f the meeting.

Skills

• For the Governor, refer to the Governors TOR and Skills Matrix.
• For Parents, they should be a parent of a child within a class at Lime Tree.