Welcome to The Key for School Governors

Prepare for a meeting

• Summer term 2018 agenda items and questions to ask
• How to prepare for your next governing board meeting
• Analysing pupil progress: questions to ask

Respond to a complaint

• Dealing with persistent or unreasonable complaints
• How to manage complaints updated

Recruit a new governor

• Thanking a governor who is leaving: example of a letter
• How to recruit school governors and trustees
• Role description: chair of governors (maintained)

Organise an election

• Parent governor elections (maintained)
• Staff governors and trustees: election, appointment and resignation
• Governor elections: voting systems

Recruit a new headteacher

• Interview tasks for a headteacher: presentations
• Interview questions for a headteacher (primary)
• Headteacher recruitment: an overview

Prepare for Ofsted

• Ofsted: what to expect from the 2019 inspection framework
• Evidence to help governors answer inspectors' questions
• Ofsted inspection: questions for governors

Prepare for a school visit

Audit board effectiveness

• Skills audits for governors
• Governing board self-evaluation in 3 steps updated
• 20 key questions for governing boards

Convert to academy status

• Academy conversion process
• Due diligence: schools joining an existing MAT
• Multi-academy trusts (MATs): schemes of delegation

Get a DBS check

• DBS checks: requirements for governors (maintained)
• DBS checks: requirements for academy trustees and local governors
• Section 128 checks

Manage an exclusion

• Discipline committee meetings: procedures
• Excluding a pupil updated
• Considering exclusions

Review a school policy

• Approving school policies: governors' role
• Policy review cycle: guidance and template
• Statutory policies and documents updated