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.

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
School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document 2016
The School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document 2016 was published on August 10th. It is statutory for maintained schools in England and Wales and replaces the 2015 edition.

Consultant: Steve Barker August 2016
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
Admissions into Academies and Free Schools - what you need to know
This article summarises the rules underpinning admissions into Academies and Free Schools. It aims to raise governors' and clerk's awareness of the rules that their schools must follow.

Consultant: Steve Barker May 2016
DfE published new timelines for schools
This article explains, the new mandatory timelines documents, for maintained schools and academies, published by the DfE. They outline statutory duties on schools and dates when actions must be taken by, and vital planning documents for governors and clerks.

Consultant: Steve Barker April 2016

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Exclusions from schools – new statutory guidance from September 2017

New statutory guidance, relating to pupil exclusions, has been published by the Department for Education (DfE). The guidance applies, from 1st September, to all maintained schools, Pupil Referral Units(PRUs) and Academies, and Free Schools in England. The guidance sets out what schools and PRUs must do to comply with the law. Governors and clerks should be aware that the statutory framework relating to pupil exclusions has not changed. The DfE make clear that the guidance aims to ‘provide greater confidence to head teachers on their use of exclusion and to provide greater clarity to independent review panels and governing boards on their consideration of exclusion decisions.’

Every governor should know

Better Governor content relates to schools in England.