Spring 2012 Newsletter & Training Calendar
Click on the link below for the latest Governor Services Newsletter and your guide to Training Courses on offer in Spring 2012.
Spring Newsletter 2012
Spring Training Calendar 2012
October Funding Forum Summary
(AUTUMN 2011)
Following the meeting on 17 October 2011 click on the link below for a summary of key decisions and actions.
October Funding Forum Summary
Support For Chairs
Announcing the publication of Leading Governors which explores the leadership role of the chair and provides an overview of the new programme of training and support offered by NCSL to support chairs of governors in this important job.
Leading governors has been developed in partnership with the National Governors' Association (NGA) and supported by the National Co-ordinators of Governor Services (NCOGS) and the Foundation, Aided Schools and Academies National Association (FASNA).
MORE SUPPORT TO COME:
From April 2012, more leadership development materials will be available for chairs of governors. These will cover:
Ensuring the governing body makes a difference and improves the school/academy
Putting the accountability role of the governing body into practice
Leading and managing the governing body
NATIONAL LEADERS OF GOVERNANCE:
The NCSL are also developing a National Leaders of Governance (NLG) programme where outstanding chairs of governors will work with other chairs to help them to develop and improve.
>Leading Governors
Education Bill 2011
A Summary of the Government Bill, Ref. Bill 137, February 2011
>Education Bill 2011
NEW - SFVS
Information about the Schools Financial Value Standard (SFVS), available to schools to use from September 2011, and which replaces the Financial Management Standard in Schools (FMSiS).
Simply follow the links below:
The Schools Financial Value Statement
Support Notes
SFVS support notes
Autumn 2011 Newsletter and Training Calendar
Click on the link below for the latest Governor Services Newsletter and your guide to Training Courses on offer in Autumn 2011.
Governor Services training calendar
Governor Services newsletter - Autumn 2011
Special School Governors Forum
This forum is open to any governors of Special Schools. The next meeting of the Special Schools Governors Forum will be held on Monday, 12 September at 2.00 pm in the NGA Offices, Birmingham. If you would like more information about this meeting or this group, please contact:
gillian.allcroft@nga.org.uk
CES Statement on Academies
Statement by the Right Reverend Malcolm McMahon OP (28 January 2011)
Simply follow the link below:
www.cesew.org.uk/standardnews.asp?id=10181
Special Educational Needs (SEN Green Paper)
"Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs"
Governor Services recommend Governors review the link below for the NGA briefing note including summary details of the NGA response to the consultation - a really useful summary.
NGA SEN Briefing notes on Green Paper Summer 2011
School Governance Ofsted Report
Ofsted Report - School Governance, Learning from the best.
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Governors Forum - 14 June 2011
Slide presentation of Governor Services termly update by Julie Lawson
>Governors Forum 14 June 2011
10 may 2011 letter on clause 37
The Education Bill contains a clause to allow maintained school governing bodies to change their size and composition. Just before the Bill finished its passage in the Commons this week, the schools minister Nick Gibb wrote to Liberal Democrat MPs Dan Rogerson and Tessa Munt explaining the Governments intention to ensure that governing bodies who change their constitution retain one staff governor and a local authority appointed governor. You can see the letter via the attached link - Education Bill letter on Clause 37.
10 may 2011 letter on clause 37
Governors' Forum presentations
6th December 2010
Click on the links below to download the presentations given at the Governors' Forum meeting on 16th November.
Presentation by Margaret Woodhouse, Director of Education and Early Years, Trafford CYPS
Presentation by Julie Lawson, Governor Services Manager, Trafford CYPS
Changes to Financial Management Standard in Schools (FMSiS)
18th November 2010
Click on the link below for an update from CYPS Schools Financial Services on the end of FMSiS.
Changes to FMSiS
Lord Hill's speech at the National Governors' Association conference
16th November 2010
Click on the link below to read a transcript of the speech given by Lord Hill National Governors' Association conference on 6th November.
Lord Hill's speech
Making sense of school performance data
18th October 2010
Click on the link below to read guidance on the governor's role in supporting and challenging schools.
Making sense of school performance data
Letter from Lord Hill to chairs of governing bodies
1st October 2010
Click on the link below to read Lord Hill's letter.
Letter from Lord Hill
Anti-Bullying Week 2010
1st October 2010
Anti-Bullying Week 2010 takes place from 15th-19th November. Click on the link below to read the briefing for governors.
Anti-Bullying Week briefing
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