Education (No. 2) Act 1986

Annual parents' meeting

5 (1) In discharging their duty to hold an annual parents' meeting for any grouped school the governing body for the group may, if they think fit, hold a joint meeting for all of the schools within the group.

(2) Where

(a) a joint meeting is held ; and

(b) the governing body have prepared separate governors' reports in relation to each of the schools within the group ;

the governing body shall, when discharging the duty imposed on them by virtue of section 30(4) of this Act, attach to the report prepared in relation to any one school in the group copies of the reports prepared for each of the other schools within the group.

(3) Where at any joint meeting the question is put on any proposed resolution which concerns one or more, but not all, of the schools within the group—

(a) only parents of registered pupils at the school or schools which the proposed resolution concerns may vote on the question; and

(b) the registered pupils at the other schools shall be disregarded for the purposes of section 31(4)(6) of this Act as it applies in relation to the proposed resolution.

(4) Where at any joint meeting there is any disagreement as to which schools within the group a proposed resolution concerns, the matter shall be decided by the chairman of the governing body.