Who do you complain to about school chair of governors?

[kedavra]

A formal complaint has massively been mishandled by the chair of governors at DSs primary.

Do I send another complaint to all the governors?

I think you can only complain to the Head and the local authority or whoever is in charge of the school.

My complaint was about the head, and the County do not get involved with school complaints. I've escalated the original complaint to the Department for education.

The fact finding documents were such blatant lies immediately uncovered by results from a SAR I'm wondering if the rest of the governors are aware of what is actually happening.

I wanted to post this myself last night
I want to attach his response
I changed his school due to bullying

The response I got dissected and mocked my complaint

It didn't respond to my complaint
It was an assassination of my character

Chair of governors responded
Not dealt with my safeguarding and behaviour like I asked for responses from

I'm so hurt

It should be in the school complaints policy how you complain further/appeal if you're unhappy with the initial response (it should be that some governors are not involved in any complaint management precisely to allow independent review if concerns remain). Also how to complain about the Chair of Governors (if you specifically wish to do so) should be in the policy.

I too complained to the Dept of Education. I knew not who else to complain to, to take it higher.

@stopbeeping I can believe it unfortunately. The TA who had looked after my son since reception said several massively hurtful things about me personally. She said I had been distant and not communicating with school. When my son's nurse asked how specifically, it was because she wanted to ask how my holiday was and I was at work.

There will be a complaints policy so you need to read it through, work out which stage you are at and escalate to the next stage.

The school have changed their complaint policy. Once you leave after 4 weeks they will not correspond with you.

If you've 'run out' of complaints policy then it's DfE I think. It depends on the type of school though. There's information on the gov.uk website

I've sent the whole lot to DfE.
I've also sent to ofsted the schools own policies that contradict statutory ones. Although these have recently vanished from the website.
I've complained to the continuing care NHS funding people as they were receiving money for specific medical care that wasn't done.
I've sent off a claim for disability discrimination.

I'm still so angry. I had evidence to back up every point of my

(pushed send too soon!)
Point of my complaint. Even things that had been previously acknowledged were then not upheld.

Sounds like you're having to fight on all fronts OP. Hope the new school does better for you

New school is amazing. I wish I had pulled him out sooner.

On Monday school run I bumped into another parent who had just moved her DS for similar reasons. The head wouldn't let her complain about him being racially abused.

I understand OP. Most people probably couldn't understand the huge irreparable damage done to us by primary. And it was actually a good primary in many ways.

If you haven't had it happen to you people can't grasp it. I too had people big lies, falsify my signature etc. You just don't think these things go on.

Yet both my ds's were very happy at the secondary, which was a feeder from said primary.

You do know that DofE will do little. I hope in time you get over it though.

You have my sympathy.

Been here done this. Schools and Govs have zilch accountability to anyone it seems.

The DD will probably be your only accountability

I need to check ours because I can't see that in ours

They took 3 months to respond to me

The chair is married to a really long serving teacher there...

I was a Govenor there and he took a lot of frustration out on me as I was the youngest governor he ever saw

I am so angry because I am quite bright and even I find this process daunting and humiliating
It makes me furious for all those families the school says wanky things about closing the gap and empowerment when this man wrote that I was contradicting myself when I wasn't

I said I didn't get correspondence to my concerns
He said I complained about teachers calling me too often and pulling me to the side to tell me my son had been beaten again by the same darling. Apparently I've contradicted myself there but I was talking about my concerns I raised with safeguarding and they just didn't reply
He said I didn't have the right to chose which method they used to contact me
Then said anything I didn't have in writing was anecdote

Sounds like he hates me and tbh he probably does
Why doesn't he just go and be a chair at another school instead of the one his wife teaches at

He's a total old timer and I am sick of being silenced

I feel broken for people who can't represent themselves of which there are literally hundreds in that school

He is a snob

You owe it to yourself for making the right decision to change something awful

Don't feel bad feel good that you did something which was so hard to cope with

Sending you love it sounds so uphill xxx

@stopbeeping it was a recent addition to mine, I hope that beneath the surface things are actually being done. I hope I've kicked up such a fuss they'll think twice about treating another family like this.