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Here you will find guidance documents and information on a number of topics relating to governance and education. Please use the below filters to find relevant information that meets your needs.
Ofsted: No place for bullying
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Appointments: An Overview
Redundancy
Monitoring monthly expenditure
Charging and remissions policy
Model Documents: Recruiting and Selecting a New Headteacher
The Governance Handbook
Model code of conduct for governing boards
Twenty key questions for the governing board to ask itself
Parents: the key stakeholders?
Governing Matters: Federations and Governance
Questions for the head: Whose curriculum is it anyway?
The role of vice chair
Eight Elements of Effective Governance
Pupil Premium: A Guide for Governing Boards
Role descriptions for chairs, governors, trustees, governance professionals and clerks
Being Strategic
Skills audit and skills matrix
School governance in 2020
Promoting wellbeing: an evaluation tool
Managing teacher workload and wellbeing
Supporting disadvantaged children
Time to chair: How chairs spend their time (2016)
NGA guidance on careers: the role of the governing board (2018)
NGA advises: When to use chair's action?
A view from the board: Ofsted's new inspection framework (2020)
Headteacher Appraisal
10 top tips on Ofsted
Clerking Competency Framework (2017)
Chair's role description
Relationships and Sex Education to be made compulsory in all schools
School governance in 2020: governance practice findings revealed
Education professionals encouraged to enrich professional development by governing
School governance in 2020: finance and funding findings revealed
Joint research with Ofsted on the impacts of COVID-19 for school governance announced
‘What governing boards and school leaders should expect from each other' guidance updated
Updated: NGA writes to Nicky Morgan on compulsory academisation and parent governors
Celebrating another successful year at NGA!
Consultation on ethical leadership in education framework opened
NGA responds to teacher pay announcement
Managing complaints effectively: the governance role
Northern Regional Conference
Managing risk
Effective governance visits
Introduction to governance - in a nutshell (Academy trusts)
London and South East Regional Conference
Clerks Advisory Group - London
Annual Conference Seminar 1 - The governing board's role in closing the disadvantage gap for pupils
Annual Conference Seminar 4 - The governing board’s role in well-being & retention of senior leaders
South West and East of England Regional Conference
Safeguarding - an introduction
Induction - for governors of maintained schools
Getting the right people round the table
Effective chairing - an introduction
Chairs 360
Safer recruitment - an introduction
The effective governance of SEND
Performance management in schools and trusts
Effective clerking - an introduction
Using data in your organisation - for those familiar with school performance measures