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.

Curriculum

The national curriculum in England 2014 has had huge consequences for what is taught, learned and assessed in schools. Governors will find articles and resources here which will help them get to grips with these changes and understand what the issues are for their schools, and the young people under their care.

Relationship & Sex Education in 2020 Webinar (Recorded 10/03/2020)
This webinar explored the new statutory requirement, from September 2020, for all schools to teach relationship, and where relevant, sex education

Consultant: Steve Barker March 2020
DfE updates PSHE guidance
DfE updates PSHE guidance for schools

Consultant: Steve Barker February 2020
DfE consultation on the future of Music education
A consultation into the future of music education in schools is launched by the DfE.

Consultant: Steve Barker February 2020
New guide to careers in schools for governors
A new guide to careers in schools for governors has been published in January 2019

Consultant: Steve Barker January 2019
Secondary Matters Webinar
This Better Governor webinar focused on issues germane to secondary education. In this first of a series of Secondary Matters webinars, we explored the curriculum and how current policy, thought, research and plans to overhaul the Ofsted Inspection framework will influence what is taught in secondary schools going forward.

: October 2018

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Webinar Schedule

With the ever-evolving guidance from government in response to the Covid-19 virus many if not all face-to-face training for governors, trustees and clerks is being cancelled. In response to this at Better Governor we are increasing the frequency and variety of our online, fully interactive webinars.

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