Charity run pre-school can staff be on the committee?

[Eddas]

As the title says can we have staff on the committee rather than parents?

I think I know the answer but would like mn's advice!!

TIA

going back a couple of years now but....

yes, sort of :)

the newest version of the PSLA constitution that I've seen (from memory 2008) says it's ok to have paid staff on the committee as long as they're not being paid to be on the committee and the roles are separate.

So you can have a staff member (who is paid to look after children) as a general committee member but you can't have the admin person (paid to do paperwork) as the treasurer / secretary.

Obviously any committee members who are also paid staff shouldn't be involved in setting pay rates / appraisal etc.

I've seen your other thread and will reply there about the other points :)

Yes, agree with Bumpybecky. It changed from the 2005 constitution to the 2008 one, staff can be on the committee but there are limitations to that - see here www.pre-school.org.uk/document/153 33 So, you can still be on the commmittee, but I don't think you can be treasurer - good news!

ok, thank you both. I've looked at the link and I suppose a staff member could be secretary or even possibly treasurer(apart from me because I am the administrator!) and they could be on the fundraising committee.

That makes it very clear, thank you

Be really careful about giving staff roles because the charity commission get very sniffy about it. There was a thread on the foundation stage forum where someone was going to get into really big trouble having staff as one of the main roles (chair, secretary or treasurer). I can't remember exactly what happened but check with the charity commission as well as the PSLA.

thanks camdancer, I have told the manager that none of the staff could be chair and a few of them could be treasurer/secretary but the ones that could be wouldn't want to be(the only willing people are the ones who already do lots of things anyway). I think the manager wanted an easy way out of the 'committee' problem but it appears there isn't one.

It appears the best way might be to put all parents/carers names into a hat a pull them out or possibly use the sorting hat method in Harry Potter