Alarm has been raised by developments which have reduced the power of school governors almost to nil, except possibly in the case of appointments, where they have an input.
A recent study by Warwickshire University has found that governors are becoming powerless. The recent announcement by the government that they are considering reducing the size of governing bodies, means that the threat to remove local power is real.
Oddly enough, the emergence of academies, the flagship of Blair and Cameron policies, has seemed to accelerate this process. The academies are free of local control, which has been wrested away by Westminster. In addition, under the current rules the governors of academies may have only one parent governor. It should be said that Blair may be horrified by this, and Cameron and Gove certainly are. The latter want power transferred downwards to the local community, not upwards to Whitehall.
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