Schools in Northern Ireland do not in too many cases have effective oversight of their activities and not enough is being done to prevent conflicts of interest.
At the NASUWT Northern Ireland Annual Conference in Belfast today members will hear concerns that conflicts of interest are increasingly arising in schools.
A motion to be debated will raise concerns that when conflicts of interest are being highlighted, nothing is done to remove the governor concerned.
It will call for a mechanism which will:
- Investigate complaints where governors have a conflict of interest.
- Investigate appointments of teacher and parent governors which have not followed a fair election process.
- Suspend all governing bodies which do not have regular meetings.
