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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.

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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.

  • Governance oversight of mental health in schools webinar (Recorded May 2020)

    In recognition of Mental Health Week 18-22 May 2020, this webinar focuses on the expectations placed on governors and trustees to monitor provision in their school or academy. We reflect on the key issues that inform and impact on pupils’ wellbeing and consider the importance of vision, culture, and values on informing effective provision.

    Consultant: Linda Lissimore May 2020

  • Effective Pupil Premium Webinar (Recorded May 2020)

    This Better Governor webinar explored the strategic oversight that governors and trustees in maintained schools and academies should have of the provision for disadvantaged pupils and the impact it has on outcomes. Those responsible for governance in all schools must hold their schools accountable for decisions made in relation to Pupil Premium expenditure. We focused on how governors and trustees can ensure their monitoring and evaluation of the progress disadvantaged pupils make is effective.

    Consultant: Steve Barker May 2020

  • Understanding EYFS Webinar (Recorded May 2020)

    This webinar focused on developing an understanding of the Early Years Foundation Stage Foundation (EYFS), and strategic oversight of provision in your school or academy. Using the EYFS framework as a guide, we explored how board members can develop confidence in knowing what effective governance looks like and how to monitor progress and outcomes

    Consultant: Linda Lissimore May 2020

  • Safe Learning Environment Webinar (Recorded April 2020)

    This webinar focused on the assurance that governors and trustees should be seeking from their schools, relating to the safety of pupils at schools in normal times and during the current Coronavirus pandemic. We explored the broader definition of safeguarding, which includes health & safety and will explore how governors and trustees should be seeking assurance that schools are safe for learning and the range of other activities that may be occurring during the current situation.

    Consultant: Steve Barker April 2020

  • The Governance of Online Safety during the Coronavirus pandemic webinar

    This webinar focused on the assurance that governors and trustees should be seeking from their schools, relating to online safety of pupils during the current Coronavirus pandemic, when most children and young people will have greater freedom and time to engage in online activities. We explored some of the current risks and the revised Department for Education guidance and how this should inform the questions governors and trustees ask.

    Consultant: Steve Barker April 2020

  • Mental Health Provision for Children and Young People Webinar (Recorded March 2020)

    The government have been working collaboratively to develop coordinated systems and practices to support children's mental health and well-being. There is an expectation now, reflected in the current Ofsted inspection framework, that schools are actively engaged in recognising characteristics, signposting and in some instances having appropriate provision in schools to support pupils’ well-being and mental health.

    Consultant: Steve Barker March 2020

  • Safeguarding - what governors need to know in 2020 (Recorded March 2020)

    This Better Governor webinar focused on safeguarding in schools and academies and what effective governance oversight looks like in 2020.

    Consultant: Steve Barker March 2020

  • Keeping Children Safe in Education 2020

    DfE consults School Governors on Keeping Children Safe in Education 2020

    Consultant: Steve Barker February 2020

  • Pupil Exclusions - the role of governance webinar (Recorded 03/03/2020)

    This webinar explored the role of governors and trustees in Pupil Exclusions,

    Consultant: Steve Barker February 2020

  • DfE launches ‘Activity Passport’

    An overview of the DfE launch of the ‘Activity Passport’ aimed at Primary-aged children in England.

    Consultant: Steve Barker January 2019

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JUST BREAKING

Pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds worst affected by the loss of learning

The Department of Education (DfE) has published research findings examining the extent of learning amongst all students in England, during the Autumn and Spring terms of the current academic year. The research was conducted by The Education Policy Institute (EPI) and Renaissance Learning, for the DfE and follows interim findings from earlier research, published in February this year.

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