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Expert governance consultancy

Access expert guidance, tailored reviews, and strategic support to help your board thrive.

NGA’s consultancy team provides tailored, high-impact support to schools and trusts across England. Our expert consultants will provide the evidence-based roadmap you need to ensure your board leads with confidence.

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Explore governance reviews, support for executive leaders and multi academy trusts, as well as our specialist consultancy services.

Governance reviews

Our expert-led reviews provide an objective, evidence-based assessment of your board’s effectiveness, helping you meet DfE recommendations and regulatory standards with confidence.

Services include:

  • External reviews of governance (ERG)
  • ERG progress reviews
  • Facilitated board self-reviews
  • Local governance reviews
  • Website audits
  • Trust compliance audits
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Executive support

We provide impartial, professional support for executive recruitment, appraisal, and statutory panels, helping you manage sensitive decisions with integrity and confidence.

Services include:

  • Executive leader performance management
  • Executive recruitment
  • Executive and chair mediation
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Multi academy trust support

From mergers to trust expansion, we support boards through complex structural change. Our consultants ensure your governance “operating system” is robust, proportionate, and future-ready.

Services include:

  • MAT capacity reviews
  • MAT mergers
  • Governance restructuring
  • MAT readiness
  • Scheme of delegation development
  • MAT selection support
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Meet our consultants

Our consultancy team offers extensive, practical governance expertise, developed through more than 700 years of combined experience supporting boards and senior leaders.

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All consultancy services

NGA’s consultancy team provides tailored governance support for schools and trusts across England. Our expert consultants help boards strengthen leadership, improve effectiveness and lead with confidence.

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  • “The NGA consultant listened to, and understood, our views. We’re pleased that we commissioned the external review.”

    Chair of governors

  • “Working with the NGA consultant meant we better understood what we should be doing. They identified what we needed to change, and how to improve.”

    MAT Chair

  • “Thank you. Your support has helped us reinvigorate governance.”

    MAT CEO

  • “Having the consultant work with us through this year has enabled us to implement significant improvements in our governance and embed changes in the way we work.”

    Chair of a medium-sized MAT

  • “I have been impressed by the professional, well-organised and astute perception demonstrated by the consultant throughout the whole process.”

    MAT CEO

  • “The consultant was very flexible, meeting with us at short notice. Her support was invaluable.”

    Chair of a single academy trust

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    Why choose NGA Consultancy

    Utilise our trusted expertise to elevate and strengthen your governance.

    Trusted governance expertise

    Trusted experts enhancing governance with impactful, strategic support.

    Comprehensive and flexible support

    Tailored consultancy for all governance needs, from audits to strategy.

    Nationwide service by top consultants

    Nationwide services, over 40 consultants ready to assist boards.

    Forward-looking reviews

    ERGs that future-proof governance, offering strategic insights.

    Proven impact with high satisfaction

    Proven success with high client satisfaction and governance improvements.

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    Expertise you can trust

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