Governance and school boards

Presentation

no longer available

Date: 1:00pm — 2:00pm, 16 March 2022
Venue: Online
Location: Online
Price members: $0.00 incl GST
Price non-members: $30.00 incl GST

Overview

Join branch sponsor Duncan Cotterill for this online session.

For many of us, the first time we dip our toes into governance is by joining our children’s school Board of Trustees. Suddenly we are no longer just a supportive parent, but also accountable for the performance of the school and its students. So what do you need to know before you join your school Board of Trustees? What can go wrong and what can you do about it?

Duncan Cotterill’s Special Counsel Madeleine Hawkesby joins us to share her experiences and war stories. Madeleine is a senior lawyer who specialises in employment and education law and regularly represents school boards. She has also has been appointed as a Limited Statutory Manager/ Commissioner in seven schools in the South Island, and has also been a school trustee.

Lucy Glausiuss will facilitate this online session. Lucy is a commercial Senior Associate at Duncan Cotterill and is on the Board of Trustees of Selwyn House School.

Please bring along your burning questions and join us to learn more about governance in the education sector.

Speakers

Madeleine Hawkesby

Madeleine Hawkesby is a special counsel in Duncan Cotterill’s Christchurch employment law team. Her expertise covers all aspects of employment law, from disciplinary process, performance management, incapacity, investigations, restructuring, drafting employment agreements and policies, and mediations.

Madeleine advises employers from a wide range of industries, and has a particular expertise in the education sector where she not only advises on employment law matters but also have experience in privacy law, parent complaints, health and safety, student disciplinary matters, ombudsmen investigations, Official Information Act requests, performance appraisal, school governance and conflict resolution.

Madeleine is an Associate of the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand Inc.

Lucy Glausiuss

Lucy Glausiuss is a commercial lawyer advising on a wide range of business, company and commercial property matters.

Her expertise includes advising clients on business sales and purchases, share sales and purchases, business structures, financing, commercial property acquisitions and dispositions, commercial and residential subdivisions and leases.

Lucy is a director of J Ballantyne & Company Limited (Ballantynes) and on the Board of Trustees of Selwyn House School.