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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
Pay: Statutory Responsibilities
Staff Discipline and Capability
Dismissing and Suspending Staff
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 (2019)
Twenty key questions for the governing board to ask itself
Exclusions - NGA guidance for governing boards
A school governance guide to successfully engaging with parents and carers
The Governance of Safeguarding
Academy trusts: the role of members
School Leaders and Governing Boards: What do we Expect of Each Other?
Being Strategic: A guide for governing boards
Skills Audit and Skills Matrix 2019 version
School Governance and Staff Performance: Overview
Joint guidance: supporting Modern Foreign Languages in your school (2019)
Pay: Decisions and Appeals
Questions for governing boards to ask: extra-curricular provision
Support available to help the governing board prepare for an inspection
Register of interests
Co-chairing
Independence: Who is the clerk working for?
ASP: What you need to know
End of year letter to NGA members from Emma Knights
Academies Show 2016: NGA publishes models for multi-academy trust governance
NGA: 10 Years of improving young people’s life chances
New EEF guide showcases evidence-based resources for governors and trustees
NGA urges governing boards to respond to the Education Select Committee’s inquiry into education fun
New recruitment guide ‘The right people around the table’ published
Ofsted assesses the state of school governance
Strategy published for improving Education in the north of England
New NGA guide encourages governing boards to get the right people around the table
Have your say in the biggest school governance survey of the year!
North West Regional Meeting
Yorkshire & Humber Regional Conference
MAT Governance Conference 2019
Clerks Advisory Group - London
East of England Regional Conference
London Regional Meeting
Clerks' Advisory Group Meeting
West Midlands Regional Meeting
Induction - for governors of maintained schools
Preparing for Ofsted – what governors and trustees need to know
Governor or trustee visits to their organisation
Panel work: reviewing decisions made by the senior executive leader
Financial oversight in maintained schools
Clerks 360
Chairs 360
Understanding your role and responsibilities
Using data in your organisation - for those familiar with school performance measures
Performance management in schools and trusts