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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
Competency Framework for Governance
Minutes - accurate reflections
EEF Presentation: Making good use of the pupil premium
Redundancy
From special measures to good
Questions for governing boards to ask: health and safety
Are schools doing enough to prepare pupils for the workplace?
NGA guidance on careers: the role of the governing board (2018)
Disadvantaged pupils
Growing governance: an ambitious vision
Knowing your school - Engaging Parents
Arts and cultural education eLearning module launched to support school governors and trustees
Education leaders back NGA calls for visible governance
GCSE results day: fluctuating entry rates overshadowed by focus on reformed GCSEs
Improving governance helps break cycle of ‘stuck’ schools finds Ofsted report
A return to selection puts progress at risk
MPs report on the role of regional schools commissioners
‘Considerable number of Multi Academy Trusts are failing to improve’ say MPs
Outstanding Governance Awards
Education and Adoption Bill passes
Question and challenge and courageous conversations
Safeguarding
Annual General Meeting and the Annual Address 2020
Managing complaints effectively: the governance role
Introduction to governance - in a nutshell (Local authority maintained)
Local Authority Partners Conference
Academies Financial Handbook - key changes and implications overview
Northern Regional Conference
Annual Conference Seminar 2 - The governing board’s role in promoting diversity & equality in senior
Introduction to governance - in a nutshell (Academy trusts)
Financial oversight in MATs
Governor or trustee visits to their organisation
Effective chairing - an introduction
Performance management in schools and trusts
Effective clerking - an introduction
Clerks 360
The effective governance of SEND
Board dynamics and good relationships
An introduction to data and school performance measures
Getting the right people round the table