{"id":472,"date":"2015-06-19T09:45:21","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T09:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/anntest3\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2017-03-03T14:13:44","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:13:44","slug":"parent-council","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holytowninformation\/parent-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Parent Councils came into force on 1 August 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The membership of Holytown Parent Council will be a minimum of four parents of children attending the school.\u00a0 The maximum size is nine.\u00a0 The Parent Council will be elected for a period of 2 years for the chairperson and 1 year for all other members.\u00a0 The head teacher is the professional adviser to the Parent Council.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The Parent Council&#8217;s rights and duties include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">supporting the work of the school:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">representing the views of parents:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">consulting with parents and reporting back to the Parent Forum on matters of interest:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">promoting contact between the school, parents, pupils, providers of nursery education and the wider community:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">fundraising:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">taking part in the selection of senior promoted staff:<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">receiving reports from the head teacher and education authority: and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">receiving an annual budget for administration, training and other expenses.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Members of Parent Councils, on a voluntary basis, may also have an advisory role in decisions on placing requests by parents in respect of those situations where the number of placing requests for a particular school or for a particular &#8211; stage in a particular school exceeds the number of places available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Parent Members:-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Chairperson<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Linda Girvan<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Vice Chairperson<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Norman Campbell (Co-opted Member\/Business Partner) Holytown Primary School\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Treasurer<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Joan Flanigan<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Parent<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Clerk to the Board<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">PROCEDURES FOR ELECTING PARENT REPRESENTATIVES<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Establishment of Electoral Roll<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">This is compiled annually, to show eligible electors.\u00a0 Pupils are issued with a pupil information computer print-out indicating the parents or guardians who are on the electoral roll.\u00a0 This information is required to be checked. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">If there are any other adults who qualify to be included in the electoral roll then the names and addresses of such adults must be included in the return at this stage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">It should be noted that a parent may approach the Head Teacher in confidence on questions as to his or her right for inclusion on the school roll. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The electoral roll is thus established, locked away securely and updated continually and annually.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">After the establishment of the roll, any parent may visit the school and request confirmation that his or her name is on the roll.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Parent Representatives<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The number of parent representatives is determined by the student roll of the school.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">In a school of this size there must be five parent representatives. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Invitations for nomination papers are made in the local press and are obtainable from the school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The school also publicises through the usual channels the availability of nomination papers. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The council&#8217;s scheme is that nominations for parents&#8217; elections be supported by two proposers who are eligible to vote at the particular election.\u00a0 The nominations close promptly at a specific time. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">If the number of candidates equal the number of vacancies the candidates are declared elected and advised accordingly.\u00a0 If there are more than five nominations an election has to be held.\u00a0 Parent candidates are invited to submit a 250 word statement in support of their candidature.\u00a0 A pro-forma for such a statement can be obtained from the school and must be returned with the completed nomination form.\u00a0 This statement is duplicated and issued to each parent elector together with a ballot paper.<\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Voting<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The legislation provides that voters should place an X against a number of candidates up to, but not more than, the prescribed number of vacancies. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The ballot papers and statements are issued by post.\u00a0 Parents have the choice of returning the ballot paper by post or having it delivered to school. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The procedures are such that voting secrecy is maintained. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">No ballot papers are accepted after the closing date and time for delivery to the school<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Count<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The count for parent representatives takes place in the school during an evening. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Supervisors and enumerators are employed to make the count, following a rigid procedure, as in any local or government election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Result of Election<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">If there are no ties, the supervisor may announce the result of the election immediately after the count and thereafter to parents by means of a circular. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\">A copy of the results may also be sent to the local newspapers.\u00a0 All papers relating to the election are retained in a secure place for six months after the election.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parent Councils came into force on 1 August 2007. The membership of Holytown Parent Council will be a minimum of four parents of children attending the school.\u00a0 The maximum size is nine.\u00a0 The Parent Council will be elected for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holytowninformation\/parent-council\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21999,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-472","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holytowninformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holytowninformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holytowninformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holytowninformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holytowninformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holytowninformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holytowninformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/holytowninformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}