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Education and Young People Committee

Oxfordshire County Council’s Education and Young People (EYP) Overview & Scrutiny Committee is seeking a parent governor of a maintained school in Oxfordshire to join the Committee and bring valuable insight and expertise. The Committee currently has one parent governor and is looking to appoint a second.

If you serve as a parent governor on your maintained school’s governing board and would like the opportunity to make a real impact county-wide, we would love to hear from you.

About the Committee

The Committee consists of backbench councillors (not Cabinet members) and up to six non-councillors. Meetings are held at County Hall, Oxford, where members receive reports and presentations, ask questions of decision-makers, and make recommendations to improve services. Decision-makers are legally required to respond to these recommendations.

There are five main scrutiny committees. EYP focuses on:

  • Services and preventative activities for children, young people, education (including Home to School Transport and Special Educational Needs and Disability), and family support.
  • The Council’s statutory functions in relation to children’s social care and safeguarding, including public health for children and young people (where not covered by the Joint Health Overview & Scrutiny Committee).
  • Care leavers and the transition between children’s and adult services.
  • The welfare of unaccompanied young asylum seekers.
  • Services for young carers.

The Committee meets at County Hall in Oxford five times a year, on weekday mornings for about three hours.

Who We’re Looking For

Applicants should demonstrate:

  • Some understanding of the Oxfordshire education system.
  • The ability to consider how children’s and education services affect the whole county.
  • Willingness to undertake training.
  • Willingness to undergo a DBS check (or provide one from the last 12 months), sign a Register of Interests, and abide by relevant aspects of the Council’s Members’ Code of Conduct.
  • Not been a member or employee of the Council in the last two years (including teaching or staff roles at an Oxfordshire maintained school).
  • Candidates must not be a councillor at any level or an MP.

How to Apply

If you are interested in working with councillors to make services the best they can be, please email scrutiny@oxfordshire.gov.uk by 18 December 2025, setting out in no more than one side of A4 why you would like to be involved and what you can bring to the role.

If more than one parent governor applies, an election will be held.

For further information, email the address above or telephone Richard Doney, Scrutiny Officer, on 07745 210056.