Committee Basics – The Handover is a downloadable resource that provides tips and guidelines to ensure committees understand their legal responsibilities following the Annual General Meeting (AGM), and to assist in a smooth transition of governance and management to the newly-elected committee. The information in this resource is relevant for all early childhood Incorporated Associations, including independent kindergartens, community managed long day care and cluster managed kindergartens that have maintained their incorporation status.
In Victoria, a wide range of management structures exist in early childhood services. Managing an early childhood service requires a good understanding of the management structure of the service, and the extent of responsibilities imposed on the committee of management by legislation, and other funding and contractual arrangements.
To ensure continuity of governance, it is important that there is a comprehensive and well planned handover from the outgoing committee to the incoming committee as soon as possible following the AGM. A few members of the outgoing committee may also offer to continue working alongside the new committee for a short period of time as mentors.
