Section 103: Removal of requirements for governors’ reports and parents’ meetings
196.This section removes the requirement for the governing bodies of maintained schools in England to produce an annual report to parents, and the requirement for such governing bodies to hold an annual parents’ meeting. The effect of the amendments made by subsections (1) and (2) is that the requirements to produce a governors’ annual report and to hold an annual parents’ meeting will cease to apply in England but will continue to apply in Wales. Subsection (3) confers on the Assembly the power to repeal one or both of these requirements in the future by way of order.