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What does Governance mean? Governance, in pensions practice, describes how a trustee board organises itself and exercises oversight, decision-making and control over an occupational pension scheme to meet legal and fiduciary duties. It encompasses the scheme’s structures, policies and internal controls, and how trustees delegate to and supervise advisers, administrators and asset managers, monitor performance, manage risk and record decisions. The term is descriptive rather than a defined legal term, but key governance requirements are prescribed in legislation and regulatory codes. In the UK, the Pensions Act 2004 and scheme administration/governance regulations, together with The Pensions Regulator’s General Code, require an effective system...

Governance of maintained schools in England and Wales: instruments of government, governor categories, appointments/removal, duties, intervention, federations, PRUs and complaints handling

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The constitutions of maintained schools

This Practice Note sets out how governing bodies for maintained schools in England are formed and how their composition is fixed by reference to the instrument of government. It also outlines governors’ powers and responsibilities, as well as the processes for their appointment and removal. In Wales, Governance operates under a regime closely aligned with that in England.

Every maintained school in England, including each Maintained nursery school, has a Governing body that stands as a statutory corporation. The make-up of that governing body is prescribed by its instrument of government, which records, among other matters, the school’s name, its category (eg voluntary aided or community), and the number of each class of school governor who will constitute the governing body.

Under the School Governance (Constitution) (England) Regulations 2012, SI 2012/1034, the instrument of government is drafted by the governors; however, in practice Local authority or Diocesan lawyers, or education officers, usually prepare the instrument for approval before it is formally “made” by the local authority...

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