School Governance
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
DfE Review of School Efficiency – Your Views Needed by 10/05
Last year we at Modern Governor helped the Department for Education to run and publicise their Governors’ Survey into effective financial management and procurement. This proved tremendously popular and helped to inform the DfE of Governors’ opinions and attitudes towards … Continue reading
Why should school governors be members of the NGA?
The National Governors’ Association is the only independent representative body for schools governors from all state funded schools (LA maintained schools and academies) in England. It supports local governor associations and governing bodies, lobbies ministers and policy makers on all … Continue reading
Statutory policies for schools update
The Department of Education have released a revised version of the statutory policies for schools. The document makes clear how often each policy must be reviewed and also shows the level of approval required, where this is prescribed in … Continue reading
Review of Efficiency in the Schools System
News from DfE website Schools spend a large amount of public money every year, and how they spend it matters. As part of the Budget Statement 2013, the Government announced that it would conduct a review of school efficiency. … 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
School governors: who are they and what do they do?
Guest Blog from Andrew Wilkins of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) In 2010 the coalition government issued new legislation making it possible for all good and outstanding schools (including, for the first time, primary schools) … Continue reading
What’s happening in 2013? Guest Blog by Clerk to Governors
What’s coming up in 2013 for schools and Governing Bodies? The following dates are an outline of the calendar for 2013, but if you have additional suggestions, please email me at info.clerktogovernors@gmail.com or leave a comment. Check back to see updates. *See DfE’s timeline of key … Continue reading