News for School Governors
Governors’ Handbook, Statutory Policies and More…
Hot off the press at the DfE website….. The governors’ handbook provides information about the role and legal duties of governing bodies in maintained schools and academies (including free schools). It can be downloaded via the link on this page. … Continue reading
Summer 2013 DfE timeline now available
The new DfE timeline for school leaders and Governors for the Summer term 2013 is now available. This timeline sets out important and useful information to help you plan ahead, prepare for and implement … Continue reading
New Module! Academy Governance
Modern Governor, working in partnership with the NGA, is pleased to announce the release of our second academy module, Academy Governance. This module looks at the role and responsibilities of the Trust Body and Governing Body. It is divided into three … Continue reading
Revised Safeguarding guidelines published
Revised guidance published yesterday by the Government clarifies the responsibilities of professionals towards safeguarding children, and strengthens the focus away from processes and onto the needs of the child. In response to recommendations from Professor Eileen Munro’s report, A child-centred system, … Continue reading
Stockport Governor Conference 2013 “Are we making a difference?”
Modern Governor spent last Saturday in Stockport at the GOVAS/Stockport MBC annual conference for their governors. It was great to meet so many dedicated governors giving up their Saturday to listen to speakers and join in workshops on a whole … Continue reading
NGA Bulletin Board March 2013
The cover story for this month’s bulletin board is the release of the Ofsted School Data Dashboard On Wednesday 27 February 2013, Sir Michael Wilshaw, HMCI Ofsted, launched a new School Data Dashboard designed to support governors to hold their schools … Continue reading
DfE Statement – School capital funding
Statement reads>> Today I am announcing details of the capital funding of around £4billion that will be made available to create new school places and to carry out maintenance and repair work to existing school buildings. The number of … Continue reading
Governors required..
SGOSS – Governors for schools have recently launched a new campaign* aimed at recruiting more school governors called We’re the people (read more in our recent blog post) and the campaign has attracted some media attention and been linked to from a … Continue reading