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Accepting governors' apologies for absence
What is the process for accepting an apology for a governor’s absence? Our associate education experts give advice on how governing bodies should consider and accept apologies for absence, and how to record them. We also link to examples of school policies on considering apologies for absence.
Contents
- Consider apologies on a case by case basis
- Non-attendance due to personal circumstances
- Recording apologies in the minutes
- Procedures from schools
- Annual schedules for governing board meetings
- Extraordinary meetings of the governing board
- Governor meetings: attendance, voting rights and conflicts of interest
- Governors' meetings: is voting by proxy allowed?
- Meetings: remote attendance
- Quorum of meetings
- Registering governors' attendance: template
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