SGOSS Application Form

1) Your Details (* Required fields )

*Title:
*Surname:
*First Names:
*Any Previous Names:
*Date of Birth:
*Occupation:
*Male:
*Female:
*Home Address:
*Postcode:
*Daytime Tel No:
*Mobile No:
*Email:

Please tick preferred form of contact:
Telephone:
Email:
Mobile:
By Post:
Do you have your own transport?
Yes
No
Would you like to be appointed to a School nearer to:
Work:
Home:
Either
Your travelling criteria for governor duties (e.g. distance/time willing to travel, preferred town or borough, tube lines or stations?

2) *Employer Details

Name Of Employer:

Branch, site or office location:

3) *Why do you want to become a school governor?

Please outline your reasons for showing an interest in becoming a school governor - including details of personal qualities, experiences or skills you feel you could bring to a school governing body. (We advise you to use at least 100 words).

4)* Have you been a school governor before?

Yes:
No:

5) Reference Details: (You are obliged to provide details of at least one referee, and ideally two. These can be business or personal and will have known you for at least two years. Please provide at least one means of contact for each referee)

Referee 1:
*Name:
Contact Address:
*Postcode:
*Tel No:
*Email:

Referee 2:
Name:
Contact Address:
Postcode:
Tel No:
Email:

6) Do you have children?

If you have children of school age, you are eligible to be a parent governor at any school.
Please tick the box if this applies to you.

If you did tick the box, which school/s do they attend?

7) Type of School you would prefer:
You are entitled to indicate the type of school you would prefer. Please rank Nursery, Primary and Secondary from 1 to 3 (1 being the highest) or tick the box if you have no preference. Note that stating a preference does not guarantee the school type of your choice will have immediate vacancies. You should also be aware that there are 5 times more primary schools than secondary schools.

No preference
Nursery

Primary
Secondary

We welcome interest from volunteers who have a desire to serve as a governor at a faith school. If you have a preference for schools with a particular religious ethos, please state this below.

8) *Disability:

Do you consider yourself to have a disability, as defined
in the Disability Discrimination (Amendment) Act 2005?

Yes
No

Please give details of any special needs provision you would require (e.g. wheelchair access/help for dyslexia)

9)* Please select your top 5 skills from this list and rank them 1 to 5, with 5 as the highest.

Marketing
IT
Project Management
Science & Technology
Strategic Planning
Legal Knowledge

Finance
Health and Safety
Languages
Art & Design
Human Resources
Engineering

10) *How you found out about our services
Please could you let us know how you found out about our service by ticking or completing the relevant box.

Word of Mouth
Advertisement for a specific school
Volunteer Bureau
Livery Companies
SGOSS Presentation/Stand
Where?

11) *Community Representation:
It would help us understand community representation if you could tell us about your ethnic background.
(Please tick the appropriate box).

12) Who can serve as a school governor?
QUALIFICATIONS AND DISQUALIFICATIONS (regulation 21 and Schedule 6 of the Constitution Regulations 2007)

A governor must be aged 18 or over at the time of their election or appointment. A person cannot hold more than one governorship at the same school.

Registered pupils cannot be governors. A person is disqualified from being a governor or associate member if they:

have a mental disorder and are detained under the Mental Health Act 1983;
have failed to attend the governing body meetings for a continuous period of six months, beginning with the date of the first meeting they failed to attend, without the consent of the governing body. This provision does not apply to the head teacher;
are the subject of a bankruptcy restrictions order or an interim order or their estate has been sequestrated and the sequestration has not been discharged, annulled or reduced;
are subject to a disqualification order or disqualification undertaking under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, a disqualification order under Part 2 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, a disqualification undertaking accepted under the Company Directors Disqualification (Northern Ireland) Order 2002, or to an order made under section 429 (2) of the Insolvency Act 1986;
are disqualified from working with children or from registering for childminding or providing day care;

have been removed from the office of charity trustee or trustee for a charity by the Charity Commissioners or High Court on
grounds of any misconduct or mismanagement, or under section 34 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act
2005 from being concerned in the management or control of any body;
are disqualified from being an independent school proprietor, teacher or employee by the Secretary of State;
have been sentenced to 3 months or more in prison (without the option of a fine) in the 5 years before becoming a governor or since becoming a governor;
have received a prison sentence of 21/2 years or more in the 20 years before becoming a governor;
have at any time received a prison sentence of 5 years or more;
have been fined for causing a nuisance or disturbance on school premises during the 5 years prior to or since appointment or election as a governor;
refuse to an application being made to the Criminal Records Bureau for a criminal records certificate.

The School Governors’ One-Stop Shop welcomes every application regardless of gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion and belief and social exclusion.

Please tick the box below to confirm that you are not disqualified from serving as a school governor and that the information you give on this form can be recorded and used by SGOSS in accordance with the Data Protection Act. The data on this form will be shared with local authorities and schools. Then press "Send".