Feb 20, 2024
Agenda Item 39 - Meeting Minutes… Writing for Hours but Reading in Seconds? | #TheGovernorsPodcast
*For today's Single Item Agenda (episode), we discuss;*
* Meeting packs (meeting papers) that school governors and academy trustees receive to read in preparation for upcoming governing board meetings
* The importance of the agenda item ‘Minutes of the Previous Meeting’ and how to approach it - Don’t simply scroll, skip or skim past this paper!
* The process of taking minutes, reading and approving minutes - plus tracking the actions, including Chair’s actions, compliance actions, noting the person responsible, setting deadline dates
* What annoys clerks and governance professionals
* Neurodiversity, inclusivity and accessibility - How best to write, construct and style minutes and meeting papers to consider the readers / target audience
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