Reference Number: CYP-E04/14
NORTH YORKSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
EXECUTIVE DECISION RECORD
Re: Richmond School – Warning Notice
This record is produced in accordance with the Local Authorities (Executive Arrangements)
(Meetings and Access to Information) (England) Regulations 2012.
This form should be used to record:
EXECUTIVE decisions (key or otherwise) taken by an individual Executive
MEMBER; and
EXECUTIVE decisions (key or otherwise) taken by an OFFICER (either alone or in
consultation with an Executive Member) under the Scheme of Delegation
(One form per decision)
The following executive decision has been taken: -
That a warning notice be issued to the Richmond School Governing Body under the powers
delegated to the Local Authority within Part 4 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006.
By whom: Peter Dwyer, Corporate Director – Children and Young People’s Service
In attendance: Peter Dwyer, Alison Johnston, Janet Bates, Nick Horn, Penny Yeadon
On: 4 February 2014
Reasons for decision: -
Part 4 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 defines when maintained schools are
eligible for interventions by Local Authorities. The issuing of a warning notice to governors is
due to the serious concerns of the Local Authority about the governance of the school. It is
the LA’s view that the breakdown of the relationship between the governors, headteacher
and leadership team in the school has seriously compromised the school’s capacity to
address school improvement issues and to promote high standards of educational
achievement.
Richmond School is eligible specifically for intervention under Section 60(2) which states a
Local Authority may use its powers of intervention when:
‘the safety of pupils or staff at the school is threatened (whether by a breakdown of discipline
or otherwise.’,
and/or
“there has been a serious breakdown in the way the school is managed or governed which is
prejudicing, or likely to prejudice, … standards of performance”
Details of any alternative options considered and rejected: -
None
Conflicts of Interest
Please record below details of any conflict of interest declared by a Member or Officer
regarding the decision and any dispensation granted in respect of that conflict.
Conflict
Dispensation?
Signed
Publication Date:
[to be inserted by Jackie
Peter Dwyer, Corporate Director – Children
Dawson/Alison Jones] and Young People’s Service
Directorate Children and Young People’s
Service
Contact for further information: xxxx.xxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Contact for copy of any reports considered xxxxxx.xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
To: The Senior Legal and Democratic Technical Support Officer, Legal and Democratic
Services - for onward circulation to:
All Members of the Council
All Management Board
All Management Board Secretaries
All Senior Managers
Principal Officer Democracy and Governance
All Administrators
Corporate Development Officers
Senior Press Officer
Communications Officer
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