The government has proposed a series of changes to the School Governance Constitution Regulations, which are planned to take effect in September 2014. The regulations determine the size and membership of governing bodies. Currently, governors of maintained schools are working to two different sets of regulations in maintained schools: those from 2007 and others from 2012.
Most governing bodies are still constituted under the 2007 regulations, which require that they have nine to 20 governors. Reconstituting under the 2012 regulations has been an option since they came into force on 1 September 2012 (and mandatory for any new governing body established since then), but schools have been slow to make the change and come under the new set of regulations.
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