School refuses to give out name of the Chair of governing body

[nialopes]

Hi a bit of advice needed.

I want to make a complaint about my daughter's primary school and the headteacher. I contacted the office and the admin person has point blank refused to give the name of the Chair of governing body of the school. She says she can not disclose such information and that I need to meet with Headteacher first. The complaint is about the headteacher so I refuse to meet with her.

So basically they can't tell me where to send my complaint and who to address it to? Can they actually keep this information a secret?

I suspect its more of an issue over cuts to school budgets and a huge proportion of schools having to set a deficit budget.

No school in theory can set a deficit budget without the agreement of the Local Authority (in the case of a maintained school) or the EFA for an academy. However there are a good number of schools who are in deficit, who are paying back over 3 years the deficit.

Parents need to realise that the crunch is now coming on funding for schools. There have been a number of years with no budget increase and it is now really starting to bit. Unfortunately there are still far to many schools that are not financially astute enough to plan well enough or to ignorant of reality. This is going to mean that far more things that schools were supporting financially are not going to happen unless parents pay. Too many schools just think the parents will pay, rather than cut their clothe appropriate to ensure that they are financially viable.

There is a new national funding formula coming out for April 2017, so from April 2017 it could be a bloodbath, because many LAs have historically been funded better than a national funding formula that is equitable to all will give them.

The secondary school is an academy , it is not catholic school. I hope they will be more reasonable

My dd goes to a Catholic primary school. We are not pressured for money at all. The PTA do a lot of fundraising which helps. They don't have masses of trips out and try and keep costs as low as possible when they do.
So it's not a Catholic thing, rather your school!

Please Don't say it's a Catholic trait..that's really offensive.

I did not say it is a catholic trait, I meant it is not a church school but an arcademy

Lifesalongsong did....

Oh I see....sorry got confused there for a moment.