SCHEDULE 1Appointment of Temporary Community Governors at Community Special Schools or Foundation Special Schools
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Subject to paragraphs 2 and 3, the local education authority shall appoint temporary community governors to the temporary governing body of a new school which is or will be a community special school or foundation special school, in accordance with regulation 13(1).
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1
In relation to a new school which is or will be a community special school or a foundation special school established in a hospital, the local education authority shall:
a
designate either:
i
one or more primary care trusts; or
ii
the national health service trust;
with which the new school is most closely connected, as the appropriate body; and
b
invite the appropriate body so designated to nominate (and if more than one, jointly) a person to be appointed as one of the temporary community governors.
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For the purposes of this paragraph:
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In relation to a new school which is or will be a community special school or foundation special school not established in a hospital, the local education authority shall appoint as one of the temporary community governors:
a
if a voluntary organisation is designated by the local education authority as the appropriate voluntary organisation concerned with matters in respect of which the school is specially organised, a person (if any) nominated by that organisation; or
b
if two or more voluntary organisations are so designated as appropriate voluntary organisations concerned with such matters, a person (if any) nominated by those organisations acting jointly.