Southall Waterside Federation - Governing Board

The governing board provides strategic leadership and accountability across both schools. It has three key functions:

• Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent
• Holding the Executive Principal to account for the educational performance of the schools and their pupils
• Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
   

Governors set the aims and objectives for the school and set the policies and targets for achieving those aims and objectives. They monitor and evaluate the progress the school is making and act as a source of challenge and support to the Executive Leader. In action, this means:

• Appointing and performance reviewing the executive principal, including making decisions about pay
• Managing budgets and deciding how money is spent
• Engaging with pupils, staff, parents and the school community
• Sitting on panels and making decisions about things like pupil exclusions and staff disciplinary proceedings
• Addressing a range of education issues within the school including disadvantaged pupils, pupils with special needs, staff workload and teacher recruitment
• Looking at data and evidence to ask questions and have challenging conversations about the school
   

Governors must be prepared to adopt the Nolan principles of public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership. 

Chair: Wendy Smith
Vice Chair: Catherine Younge
Clerk: Rebecca Wilson
Staff Governors: Jeremy Hannay (Executive Principal), Emma Valério (affiliate - head of school), Gurdeep Sandhu (affiliate - head of school), Stephanie Merchant
Co-Opted Governors: Imane Maghrani, Rahul Rajput, Robina Sekhon, Geoffrey Deane
Parent Governors: Leonora Catherall
Local Authority Governor: Gary Redhead

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
Strategic Development Committee: Mr Redhead (chair), Mr Deane, Dr Hannay, Mrs Catherall, Ms Merchant, Ms Smith, Mrs Javed
Education Strategy Committee:  Mrs Younge (chair), Mrs Sekhon, Miss Maghrani, Mr Rajput, Mrs Valerio, Mr Sandhu

Declaration of Business & Personal Interests

This is a statutory document for the Governing Body to ensure that governors not only act impartially, but are also seen to act impartially.  The governing body have a responsibility to avoid any conflict between their business and personal interests and affairs and those of the school.  There is a legal duty on all governors to declare an interest likely to lead to questions of bias when considering any item of business at a meeting and for the governor concerned to withdraw, if necessary, whilst the matter is considered.  

Governors are required to complete a 'Declaration of Business Interests' on appointment and this declaration is reviewed annually.  These are maintained as a Register of Business / Pecuniary Interests. Additionally, as an item on the agenda of every Governing Body and committee meeting, Governors are required to state whether they have any such interests.  

The register enables governors to demonstrate that in spending public money they do not benefit personally from decisions which they make.