After many months of hard work, we’re finally live! Our team of consultants work with Governors at over 1,400 schools and our aim is to share our experience and expertise with you through our new Better Governor website. If you are curious about us and want to know who we are and what we do, you can watch our short videos. Amanda Peck, an academy governor , and Steve Barker, our Head of Governance Consultancy, will introduce our vision for the Better Governor website and briefly talk through the resources that will be available to you. Why not let us know if there is a subject you would like to see featured and we’ll do our best to push it up our priority list.

Pupils

This area of the Better Governor website, focuses on news articles and reports that highlight school issues impacting on pupils, their needs and requirements, and how governing bodies can ensure their school provides the right support, at the right time, to all pupils, from the most vulnerable to the most able.

Disadvantaged pupils - what governors need to know?
This article explores how we define 'disadvantaged pupil' in our schools and what it means in relation to 'closing the gap'. Most importantly, how do governors ensure that no child is left behind?

Author: Ruth Murton November 2015
DfE guidance on the use of social media and the threat to schools
Social media and its use in radicalisation of children and young people.

Author: Ruth Murton October 2015
What to ask at school: Safeguarding May 2015
What to ask at school: Safeguarding May 2015

Consultant: Steve Barker July 2015
Ofsted Report on Most Able Students (March 2015)
An update from Ofsted on their 2013 report on how the most able students are performing

Consultant: Fiona Collier July 2015
Preventing children and young people being drawn into terrorism
This article explores DfE guidance, published on July 1st 2015, relating to the Prevent Duty on schools.

Consultant: Steve Barker July 2015
Four new Safeguarding Documents
In March 2015 four key safeguarding documents were published. This article explores their impact on governance in schools.

Consultant: Steve Barker March 2015

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Better Strategic Planning Webinar July 2019

This Better Governor webinar, is an opportunity for all those involved in governance, in maintained schools and academies to reflect on the effectiveness of strategic planning in their school or trust. The Governance Competency Framework sets a clear expectation that Governing/Trust Board's focus on a strategic remit: effective strategic planning is implicit in this. Join us to explore the topic and engage in discussion on what effective practice looks like in 2019. This webinar will be facilitated by our governance experts Steve Barker and Linda Waghorn and will be a mix of input from them together with opinion polls and the opportunity to ask your own questions.

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