From Risk Registers to Real Insight: Risk Management for Governance Professionals
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Dates for this course
17 June 2027, 9:30-11:00 am
A focused workshop empowering governance professionals to input into the building and management of robust risk processes, to advise boards effectively and to strengthen their role as the link between operational risk and governance oversight.
At a glance
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
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Who is this suitable for?
- Governance leads in multi academy trusts
- Governance professionals working with single and multi-academy trusts
- Company secretaries of single and multiple academy trusts
- Governance professionals working in LA maintained schools
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What are the benefits?
- Strengthen your expertise by developing the knowledge and confidence to support effective risk management across your school or trust
- Improve board effectiveness by ensuring risk information is clear, relevant and supports informed decision-making.
- Enhance your professional impact by providing strategic advice, robust assurance and practical governance support.
- Take away practical tools and techniques that can be applied immediately to improve risk registers, reporting and governance processes.
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How will you learn?
The workshop blends facilitator-led discussion with interactive activities, real-world scenarios and examples of good practice.
You’ll be able to share challenges you and your peers face in supporting governance and learn tried and tested approaches to help achieve effective risk management
You'll leave with a resource toolkit and ready-to-use templates to help with next steps and implementation.
Costs for members
Costs for non-members
Meet the trainer
Ruth Agnew MBE
Ruth has over twenty years’ experience of governance in both the maintained and academy trust sectors, as a governance professional, as a self-employed consultant and trainer, and most recently as Head of Governance for a large multi-academy trust supporting all layers of governance including members, trustees and local governors to be effective. Ruth is also an experienced governor and chair, and a former National Leader of Governance and NLG Advocate. As NGA Strategic Lead for Governance Professionals, Ruth oversees the organisation’s offer to governance professionals, including the development and delivery of professional development programmes, publications and the management of network meetings and conferences.