How to manage confidentiality on your governing board

Decide what should be confidential

You and your governing board should decide what information is considered confidential from board and committee meetings. Everyone on the board should maintain confidentiality on these matters.  

For example, this will include:

• Confidential items addressed in meetings and not made available to the public, especially in matters relating to individual members of staff, pupils or parents
• Details of how individuals contribute to meetings and how they vote 

You can read more on when to make minutes confidential in another article.

If you need to restrict any information, you could use a dedicated platform like GovernorHub, which lets you lock documents and restrict the visibility of folders. This is now included with your membership to The Key for School Governors.

Set expectations in your code of conduct

Set clear expectations of a governor's role and their behaviour in a code of conduct Include a statement on confidentiality within the