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 Downland Village Schools Federation (DVSF)

Following a six-week public consultation, the governors of the Downland Village Schools Federation (DVSF) and of Compton & Up Marden CofE Primary (CU Primary) have decided to go ahead with a proposal to all three schools (Rake, Rogate and CU Primary) together inside a newly-constituted DVSF. The report below (see “Information from DVSF”) gives the background and the evidence gathered from the consultation, which informed our decision to go ahead with the proposal. However, for those who would like to read more about us, federations generally, and some of the responses we had to our consultation, we hope this page will help.

Information from DVSF

• The report from our boards of governors on the decision to go ahead with the proposal to federate
• Our presentation to WSCC/WSGA federation & partnership workshop (10-12-20)

Questions and answers

• Questions and answers about federation

Information about federation

• WSCC guidance: Guidance for governing boards - partnership working and forming a federation
• National Governance Association guidance on federations
• East Sussex County Council guidance on federations#
• DfE regulations (legislation.gov.uk):

•  The School Governance (Federations) (England) Regulations 2012
•  The School Governance (Constitution and Federations) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Comments from the local authority and diocese

• From the director of education from our local authority (WSCC), Mr Paul Wagstaff
• From the director of education from our diocese (Diocese of Chichester), Mr Trevor Cristin

Other responses

       Letters from local parish councils

• Compton parish council
• Rogate parish council
• Trotton with Chithurst parish council

       Letters from local church PCCs

• Edward Mynors, lay reader, Octagon parish
• Parish of St Luke’s Milland and Rake

       Other letters from the Compton community:

• Compton Village Tea Rooms (Compton shop)
• Coach and Horses (Compton pub)
• Ex chair of governors (Lady Woodcock)
• Ex-vice-chair of governors (Sarah Lawton)
• Previous headteacher (Joan Burnett)
• Ex-teacher (Linda Donovan)
• Ex chair of PTA (Helen Ison)

We cannot add all the correspondence we have received here, so we have attached a zip file with

the other letters and emails received from consultees up to now – you can download this here.

    If you have any other questions or comments, please send them to joint.chairs@dvsf.school

The proposed expansion of the

Downland Village Schools Federation (DVSF)

to include Compton & Up Marden CofE Primary