The Government of Maintained Schools (Training Requirements for Governors) (Wales) Regulations 2013

School Performance Data Training

5.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) a governor must complete the school performance data training within 1 year of that governor’s appointment or election (whichever is the later) (“the school performance data training period”) where that governor is appointed or elected to a governing body after the coming into force of these Regulations.

(2) Nothing in this regulation applies to—

(a) a head teacher of a school who is also a governor;

(b) a governor who—

(i) within the year immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations has completed local authority school performance data training;

(ii) is being appointed or elected for a further term at any maintained school; and

(iii) has not had a relevant break in service as a governor; or

(c) a governor who—

(i) has completed the school performance data training;

(ii) is being appointed or elected for a further term at any maintained school; and

(iii) has not had a relevant break in service as a governor.

(3) A governor who has not completed the school performance data training in accordance with these Regulations is suspended for all meetings of the governing body from the day following the end of the school performance data training period until that governor has completed the training.

(4) Nothing in the regulation is to be read as affecting the right of a governor who has been suspended to—

(a) receive notices of, and agenda and reports or other papers for, meetings of the governing body; or

(b) attend a meeting of the governing body convened in accordance with regulation 30 of the 2005 Regulations or regulation 38 of the 2010 Regulations (as the case may be) to consider that governor’s removal from office,

during that person’s period of suspension.

(5) A governor is not disqualified from continuing to hold office under paragraph 5 of Schedule 5 to the 2005 Regulations or under paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 to the 2010 Regulations (as the case may be) for failure to attend any meeting of the governing body while suspended under this regulation.

(6) A governor who is suspended under this regulation for a continuous period of 6 months is to be disqualified from holding or continuing in office under regulation 24 of, and Schedule 5 to, the 2005 Regulations or under regulation 32 of, and Schedule 7 to, the 2010 Regulations (as the case may be).