Meetings and proceedings of schools forum
8.—(1) The schools forum must meet at least four times a year and are quorate if at least two fifths of the total membership is present at a meeting.
(2) Any elected member or officer of the authority who is not a member of the forum may attend and speak at meetings of the forum.
(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the members of the forum must elect a person as chair from among their number and determine the chair’s term of office.
(4) The members of the forum may not elect as chair any member of the forum who is an elected member or officer of the authority.
(5) Subject to paragraph (7), the members of the forum may determine their own voting procedures.
(6) The proceedings of the forum are not invalidated by—
(a)any vacancy among their number;
(b)any defect in the election or appointment of any member; or
(c)any defect in the election of the chair.
(7) The authority must make arrangements to enable substitutes to attend and vote at meetings of the forum on behalf of schools members, Academies members and non-schools members, in consultation with members of the forum.