The Chair will ask Members to confirm whether they have any declarable interests in relation to any item on the agenda.
All Members who believe they may have such an interest must declare it and may only:
(a) remain in the meeting while that matter is discussed at the discretion of the Chair or Vice Chair, and
(b) speak on the matter by invitation.
Examples of declarable interests include:
where the outcome of a discussion may provide a personal advantage or avoid disadvantage (pecuniary or non-pecuniary), or where the focus of an agenda item and the likely impact of any outcome is wholly or mainly on a school with which the Member is associated.
Minutes:
Apologies for absence had been received from Ray Hinds, Kathy Perry, Michael Jarrett, Neil Wilcox and Johnny Kyriacou. There had been no apologies from Jo Matthews.
The Chair thanked everyone for attending and welcomed them to the first meeting of the academic year. An apology was extended to all those who had experienced problems receiving the supporting documentation; it had also been necessary to email a detailed spreadsheet, rather than publish it on the website and hard copies of the spreadsheet were available at the meeting.
There were none.