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.

Character Education DfE guidance
The DfE has published new Character Education guidance for schools

Consultant: Steve Barker December 2019
New Governance Handbook – March 2019
The DfE has published a new, updated version of the Governance Handbook in March 2019

Consultant: Steve Barker April 2019
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.

: 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.

: 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
Competency Framework for Governance Webinar - 'Evaluation' (March 2017)
The seventh and last webinar in our series, on the new Competency Framework for Governance, focusses on the 'Evaluation' competency area. Watch the recording of the webinar here now....

: March 2017
Competency Framework for Governance Webinar - 'Compliance' (March 2017)
The sixth webinar in our series, on the new Competency Framework for Governance, focusses on the 'Compliance' competency area. Watch the recording of the webinar here now....

Consultant: Steve Barker March 2017

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Ofsted - Quality of Education judgement webinar

This Better Governor webinar will explore the Quality of Education judgement within the Ofsted framework introduced in September 2019. We will focus on how inspectors arrive at their judgement including, the evidence they look for in schools and reflect on how this impacts on governance in 2020.

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