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From Risk Registers to Real Insight: Risk Management for Governance Professionals

At a glance

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.

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Understand your strategic role in coordinating risk management.
Support the development and maintenance of an effective, board-ready risk register.
Ensure risk information presented to boards is clear, relevant, and actionable.
Support boards in articulating and applying risk appetite.
Identify weaknesses in risk reporting and improve assurance processes.
Add value through advice, challenge, and governance insight.

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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.

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Costs

NGA membership offers you substantial savings on this course and access to much more and there are discounts for group bookings.

Costs for members

£90
per person

Group discounts

£80
2-4 people
£70
5+ people
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Costs for non-members

£110
per person

Group discounts

£95
2-4 people
£85
5+ people
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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.

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