My name is Sophie Lee and I have been a Clerk to Governors since 2012, working in Southampton schools. You can contact me here.
My undergraduate degree from Warwick University is in English literature and I have a postgraduate diploma in journalism from Cardiff University.
My aim in establishing Ask A Clerk is to provide the kind of site that I needed when first starting out in clerking.
One of the first things I did in my new job was start a Word file filled with question after question that I needed answers to. What do you do if both the chair and vice-chair can’t attend a meeting? Can governors make decisions by email? Can governors scrap all committees if they want to?
I hope this site helps governors and clerks find the information they need without trawling through legislation, or amendments to legislation, or explanatory memos to legislation, or statutory guidance, or non-statutory departmental advice…