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.

Statutory Regulations

The role and responsibilities of school governors are defined in various acts of parliament and through statutory regulations. This section will help clerks and governors find out more about what they must do and what they can do as governors.

New –What maintained schools must publish online
The DfE have updated their guidance on what maintained schools must publish online

Consultant: Steve Barker November 2018
Revised Guidance – what maintained schools must publish online
The Department for Education has revised guidance on what maintained schools must publish online.

Author: Ruth Murton June 2018
New statutory duty on careers guidance for schools
Revised statutory guidance on careers advice provided by schools and provision of access to other providers came into effect at the beginning of January 2018.

Consultant: Ruth Murton and Steve Barker January 2018
Exclusions from schools – new statutory guidance from September 2017
With effect from 1st September, new statutory guidance applies to all pupil exclusions in maintained schools, pupil referral units and academies in England.

Consultant: Steve Barker August 2017
Removing Parent Governors
On 1st September new statutory regulations come into effect enabling maintained school governing bodies to remove elected parent and staff governors.

Consultant: Steve Barker August 2017
Clerking Competency Framework
The Department for Education has published its Clerking Competency Framework. This article explores the key competencies and the implications for governance. Read more here now...

Consultant: Steve Barker April 2017
National Governors' Database
From September 2016 all state-funded schools in England will be required to post their governors' details on the Department for Education, Edubase site.

Consultant: Steve Barker July 2016
Term-time holidays (podcast)
Download and listen to this Better Governor podcast now to ensure that you are aware of the key issues on attendance, brought into the media spotlight recently, as a result of the High Court Ruling on term-time holidays from school...

Consultant: Steve Barker July 2016
The Queen's Speech - 'Education for All' Bill
The Queen's Speech unveiled plans for the 'Education for All' Bill. You can read more here...

Consultant: Steve Barker May 2016
U-Turn on forced academisation? - What you need to know
This article explores the Department for Education (DfE) announcement "that it is not necessary to bring legislation to bring about blanket conversion of all schools."

Consultant: Steve Barker May 2016

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Recruiting a Headteacher in 2019 webinar

This Better Governor webinar will explore the role of governance in recruiting headteachers and focus on best practice in ensuring schoools secure the leadership they deserve. The cost of not being successful in recruiting a headteacher places a significant premium on getting the whole process right first time. Governing Bodies and Trust Boards need to ensure that investing in a recruitment process delivers value for money. The webinar will be hosted by two of our governance experts; Steve More...Barker and Linda Waghorn. There will be opinion polls conducted during the webinar and participants will have the opportunity to ask questions, by typing them in, or through being invited to ask them live on air.

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Better Governor content relates to schools in England.