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Interim Executive Board meaning

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An interim executive board is a temporary replacement governing body installed to secure rapid improvement at a maintained school that is eligible for intervention. In England, it is provided for by the Education and Inspections Act 2006 and regulations: the local authority may appoint an IEB (with any required consent from the Secretary of State) once statutory grounds for local authority intervention are met, displacing the existing governing body and exercising all of its functions. In Wales, a similar mechanism exists under the school Standards and Organisation (Wales) Act 2013, with Welsh Ministers’ involvement. IEBs are typically small, skills‑based boards focused on school improvement. Key features include taking urgent decisions on governance, safeguarding, staffing and budget; agreeing and delivering an improvement plan; and advising on longer‑term arrangements, which in England may include recommending academy conversion. They are time‑limited and are dissolved when a new governing body is constituted or governance transfers on conversion. The term has a specific statutory meaning in England and Wales. It is not used in Scotland (where education authority schools do not have governing bodies) or Ireland. In Northern Ireland, different statutory arrangements apply to replace a board of governors in intervention, but the label “interim executive board”...
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IEB after entire governing body resignation: LA EIA 2006 Part 4 warning notice and any emergency powers beyond s 64

Neither the legislation—Part 4, Schedule 6 of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 (EIA 2006)—nor the guidance—Governance handbook and Schools causing concern—Statutory guidance for local authorities—addresses whether a duty to consult persists where a local authority intends to exercise its EIA 2006, s 65 powers to appoint an Interim Executive Board (IEB) after the entire governing body has stepped down. Warning notice As stated at page 14 of the guidance, a warning notice under Part 4 of the EIA 2006 must be provided in writing to the school’s governing body and must include: the matters on which the local authority’s concerns are based...

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