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Welcome to the NGA Finance section. Here we cover a number of finance related topics that are aimed at informing and helping governors and trustees perform their role effectively.
In addition to the links below, governors and trustees are strongly encouraged to read documents produced by the Department for Education (DfE) and Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). GOV.UK have provided a list of governmental financial publications for schools.
Some particularly useful sources of external information include technical data on school funding arrangements (for 2016-17 and 2018-19), revenue funding and a financial efficiency toolkit. Specific information for academies include the Academies Financial Handbook, guidance on academies financial assurance and information on countering fraud in academies.
Members will be kept up-to-date via the NGA weekly e-newsletter when financial documents are published or updated.
Academies financial notices to improve
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Financial effectiveness and efficiency
Charging for activities - what schools can and cannot ask parents to pay for
Education Funding Agency training - The role of the school governor
Exploring income generation in schools
Financial Planning
Financial reserves in academies
Guidance for effective financial oversight in Academies
Monitoring monthly expenditure
Pensions and academies
Questions for governing boards to ask: Finance
Risk management
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
What do board chairs do?
Questions for Governing Boards to ask: Staffing
Associate Members
School Leaders and Governing Boards: What do we Expect of Each Other?
When things go very wrong
A question of time: how chairs of governing boards spend and manage their time (2016)
Promoting positive mental health
Sir John Dunford: the pupil premium
Character Education
Academy boards: Government u-turn on plan to end the requirement for parent governors
Current policy on academisation will remain unchanged, DfE confirms
NGA responds to Justine Greening's speech
National Audit Office report on teacher supply
Updates from the Department for Education: Good news
NGA at the Academies Show and new guides for multi-academy trust governance
Improving governance helps break cycle of ‘stuck’ schools finds Ofsted report
PISA 2015 research published
NGA responds to Tes articles on school governance
NGA supports DfE recommendations for governing boards on teacher workload
Northern Regional Conference
Annual General Meeting and the Annual Address 2020
Introduction to governance - in a nutshell (Local authority maintained)
Clerks Advisory Group - London
Young Governors' Network Reception
An introduction to using pupil performance data effectively
London and South East Regional Conference
Governing in COVID-19 times: preparing for the next stage
Effective governance visits
Ofsted Inspection: What the board needs to know
Preparing for Ofsted – what governors and trustees need to know
Induction - for governors of maintained schools
Effective clerking - an introduction
Financial oversight in maintained schools
Clerks 360
Governor or trustee visits to their organisation
Question and challenge and courageous conversations
Performance management in schools and trusts
Effective chairing - an introduction
Board dynamics and good relationships