A Polite Request to Clerks and Chairs

We actively recruit governors for schools throughout Warwickshire and when we receive an application form we will forward it to the Clerk and Chair of a school that the candidate has expressed an interest in supporting. 

Please can we ask that either the Clerk to Governors or the Chair of the Governing Board acknowledges receipt of the email and application form and responds to it within two weeks of receipt?  If we haven’t received a reply within the two weeks we will assume there are no vacancies and forward the applicant’s details to another school / governing board.

We have recently had examples of schools taking 2 months to reply to either Governor Services or the applicant and we feel this is unfair to the applicant and reflects an unprofessional image of Governance in Warwickshire.