CGOV.15:4.1 - Recover the governing task and the existing way of doing it

Name the recurring matter and the practical difficulty: for example, material assumptions arrive too late for deliberation, an interested participant controls the review, or oversight reports conceal an unfulfilled undertaking.

A wider board performance review can be useful when the difficulty cannot yet be located among ways of working, composition, powers or support. Choose a scope that can resolve that uncertainty. Use its finding here when a method change is the question; a known information-access fault can instead return directly to the service that must be repaired.

Recover enough of the existing method to identify its inputs, participants, operations, result and continuation conditions. Use an ordinary completed or pending matter to make these concrete. A school name or a procedure’s title leaves that reconstruction unfinished.

Use the applicable rights, powers and participation conditions already known through CGOV.1–CGOV.3, CGOV.6 and CGOV.12. Determine which of them constrain the proposed change. Also retain the information, capability and support needed to perform it. Reopen a missing corporate question through its owning method rather than supplying an assumed national default.