Note, if you’re on:
- The board of trustees, you’ll be reviewing trust-wide policies that’ll be set for all schools within your trust
- A local governing body (LGB) it’s unlikely you’ll need to review trust-wide policies in detail, as they will have already been reviewed by the trust board
- You’ll make sure any policies have been adapted for your school where necessary - you can find question prompts later in this article
Find out more about setting policies centrally, including which ones to cover trust-wide and which to make at school level.
Trustees will discuss the draft policy
This could be the full board of trustees, or a trust committee if the policy's been delegated.
Invite the member of staff who drafted/reviewed the policy, so you can ask them the questions below Read the draft and any notes the chair of the board/committee has made in advance They should highlight