These principles apply to all members of the governing board including the headteacher and any others in attendance at the meeting, though if a matter is to be voted upon, then only to the members of the governing board.
The clerk to the governing board will only be required to withdraw when the governing board is discussing the clerk's pay/contract or disciplinary action against the clerk.
Governors must withdraw when their own appointment, reappointment or removal as a member of the governing board or a committee is under consideration.
Any governor who is employed to work at the school (other than the headteacher), must withdraw from a meeting where the pay or performance appraisal of any particular person employed to work at the school is under discussion.
The headteacher must withdraw from any meeting where his/her own pay or performance appraisal is under discussion.
If a person has any pecuniary interest, direct or indirect in any contract, proposed contract or any other matter under discussion at a meeting s/he shall at the meeting disclose the fact and:
Withdraw from a meeting during the consideration or discussion of the meeting;
A person has an indirect pecuniary interest if:
s/he, or any nominee of hers/his, is a member of a company or other board with which a contract is under consideration or has been made;
s/he is a partner in business or in the employment, of a person with whom the contract is made or under consideration.
A person has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in a matter if a relative (including a spouse) living with her/him, has a direct or indirect pecuniary interest.
The headteacher (whether a governor or not), a governor who is a teacher or member of the non-teaching staff, or any teacher who is in attendance in an advisory capacity should not have an interest that is greater than the interest of the generality of teachers at the school.
