School governance support

We provide support to school leaders and governing boards on all areas of school governance.

We offer:

• guidance and advice
• virtual and face to face training
• clerking services
• external reviews of governance

We also oversee the council’s legal duties about school governance and work in wider partnership roles. This includes:

• weekly education updates
• the Walsall Learning Alliance
• schools causing concern
• monthly virtual governance briefings

Our services and support

Our services are tailored to the needs of an individual setting. They include:

1. Governor training: We provide a complete online offer, from induction through to the latest guidance on all aspects of school governance. We deliver sessions tailored to the needs of individual boards or face to face. Our training package includes NGA standard membership and NGA Learning Link (e-learning).
2. Clerking services: A full clerking service with a nominated trained clerk as a point of contact and access to Governor Hub. We provide template termly agendas, reports and briefings for meetings.
3. External reviews of governance and support in developing self-audit tools to track the impact of governance over time and identify areas of self-improvement.
4. Supporting changes to governance, including federations, acadamisation, changing the constitution of your governing board.
5. Bespoke advice and guidance on governance and school leadership to meet the needs of your setting and leadership priorities.
6. Local authority statutory duties around instruments of government, maintaining a database of school governors etc.