Welcome to our Governors page

Governors at Dovecot have pledged to uphold the ‘Liverpool Promise’ and will work alongside other Liverpool organisations and associations, who aim to support Liverpool in its aim to be the best city in the UK to grow up in – where children are healthy, happy, safe from harm, ready to learn, ready for school and ready for work.

Please find below details of how our Governing body is structured, including the names, categories and terms of appointment for each Governor.

Our Governing Body 

Annual Governance Statement for the Governing Body of Dovecot Primary School

In accordance with the Government’s requirement for all governing bodies, the 3 core strategic functions of Dovecot Primary School Governing Body are:

1. Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos, values and strategic direction;

2. Holding the Head teacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils;

3. Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent.

The Governing body is made up of 11 Governors:

1 head teacher governor, 2 parent governors, 1 staff governor, 1 Local Authority governor and 6 co-opted governors.

The Full Governing Body meets at least once each term, we also have a Resource and Finance meeting once a term.

The Resources and Finance Committee looks at the maintenance and development of the school premises, and makes decisions about how the school should use its budget. 

   Dovecot Primary School Instrument Of Government

1. The name of the school is Dovecot Primary School.
2. The school is a community school.
3. The name of the governing body is: “The governing body of Dovecot Primary School”.
4. The governing body shall consist of the following representatives: Headteacher, LA governor(s), staff governor(s), parent governor(s), Co-opted (community) governors
5. The term of office of all categories of governor is 4 years.
6. This instrument of government came into effect on 30th June 2015.
7. This instrument was made by order of Liverpool Local Authority on 30th June 2015.

All the governors of Dovecot Primary School have signed the Register of Personal, Pecuniary or Business interests. This is a declaration of any personal or business interest they or any relative or person closely connected with them, have with businesses or other organisations that may have dealings with the school. This could for example include owning or having a relative work for a business that had dealings with school; having a relative working in or for school or being a governor of another school.

If any interest a governor has could be seen to cause a conflict of interest they would be asked to withdraw from any decision making concerned. This is to ensure that our governors can always be seen to be putting the interest of the school first.

At present we have a vacancy on our Governors for a parent governor.

If you are interested in this position, please contact the school office.