Review requirements for implementing a management system that provides effective oversight of all program areas, promotes clear staff roles and responsibilities, and ensures staff understand reporting procedures.

Each agency’s governing body and Policy Council jointly must establish written procedures for resolving internal disputes between the two governance groups in a timely manner.

Head Start agencies must provide appropriate training and technical assistance to the governing body, any advisory committee members, and the Policy Council, to include training on the HSPPS requirements.

This standard outlines how to establish, and the requirements for, parent committees in program governance.

Review requirements for the composition, duties, and responsibilities of the governing body. This standard also addresses how to establish an advisory committee.

Read the standards around establishment, composition, duties and responsibilities, term length, and reimbursement for policy councils and policy committees.

Head Start agencies must establish and maintain a formal program structure that includes a governing body, a Policy Council at the agency level and policy committee at the delegate level, and a parent committee.

This part focuses on areas related to program governance, including the role of governing bodies, councils, and committees, as well as training and technical assistance for these groups.

To end a delegate agency contract, grant recipients must show just cause why termination is appropriate or demonstrates cost effectiveness.

This standard presents the requirements for determining and establishing written agreements with delegate agencies.