Prioritise community engagement and make sure everyone knows their role in it
Making partnership with your communities part of your vision or values means that it will flow through everything you do as a trust. Your scheme of delegation is vital, as it sets out how this will happen in practice. Make sure everyone knows who is responsible for engaging with stakeholders and reporting and acting on the results.
Schemes of delegation in multi-academy trusts
How to approach writing/reviewing your scheme of delegation
How to embed your scheme of delegation
Nurture effective governance at local level
Whether you call them local governing bodies, local school committees, advisory boards, academy councils or something else, your trust's local tier of governance is ideally placed to engage with stakeholders. Investing in your local governors' skills and efficacy will help them add value, and make sure stakeholder voices are heard where they're most needed.
For the trust board and central team:
How to make sure your local governing bodies are effective and engaged
For local governors:
Local governing bodies: how to stay effective and engaged with your trust
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Make sure you're visible
As local governors and trustees, you can't engage with staff, pupils, parents/carers and wider communities if nobody knows who you are or what you do. Use our articles to raise your profile with stakeholders.
How to raise your board of trustees' visibility in your trust community
Governor/trustee biographies: template and examples
Engage with purpose
At every level of governance, you should make sure that decision-making is supported by meaningful engagement. When you engage with staff, pupils, parents/carers and the wider community, listen to these stakeholder voices and use your trust's systems to get their insights to the decision-making table.
Find support with the different forms stakeholder engagement can take:
Tips to boost engagement with parents and other stakeholders
Top tips to get your governors on school visits
Governor school visits: your how-to guide
Governor school visits: questions to ask pupils
Parent and staff surveys: governors' and trustees' role
School and trust newsletters: governance role
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