School Standards and Framework Act 1998

[F1Schools forums]E+W

[F147A Schools forumsE+W

(1)[F2Every [F3local authority] shall in accordance with regulations establish for their area before such date as may be prescribed a body, to be known as a schools forum, representing the governing bodies and head teachers of schools maintained by the authority and, if the authority so determine, also representing such bodies as the authority may from time to time in accordance with regulations determine.]

[F2Every [F3local authority] must, in accordance with regulations, establish for their area a body to be known as a schools forum.]

(2)Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to the Common Council of the City of London or the Council of the Isles of Scilly.

[F4(3)The purpose of a schools forum is—

(a)to advise the relevant authority on such matters relating to the authority's schools budget as may be prescribed by regulations under section 45A(3) or by regulations under this subsection, and

(b)to exercise any [F5other function that may be imposed on the schools forum by or under this Chapter].]

[F6(3A)In exercising its functions, a schools forum is to have regard to any children and young people's plan prepared by the local Children's Trust Board.]

(4)Regulations under section 45A(3) or under subsection (3) may include provision requiring a relevant authority to have regard to advice given by their schools forum, or requiring a relevant authority to consult their schools forum in relation to prescribed matters or before taking prescribed decisions.

[F7(4A)Regulations must provide for a schools forum to include—

(a)members representing governing bodies of schools maintained by the relevant authority, and

(b)members representing head teachers of such schools.

(4B)Regulations may provide for a schools forum to include—

(a)members representing such other persons—

(i)as may be prescribed, or

(ii)as the relevant authority may from time to time, in accordance with regulations, determine, and

(b)other members,

and may make further provision as to the constitution of a schools forum.]

(5)Regulations may make provision as to [F8the constitution], meetings and proceedings of a schools forum.

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(7)Regulations may make provision with respect to expenses of a schools forum.

(8)Except as provided by regulations, the expenses of a schools forum shall be defrayed by the relevant authority.

[F10(9)In this section “relevant authority”, in relation to a schools forum, means the [F3local authority] by whom the forum is established.]

[F11(10)In this section—

(a)a “children and young people's plan” means a plan published by a Children's Trust Board under section 17 of the Children Act 2004;

(b)“the local Children's Trust Board”, in relation to a schools forum, is the Children's Trust Board established by arrangements made under section 10 of that Act by the relevant authority F12....]]