- Website publishing requirements and your role
Know what needs to be published on your school website or trust website and understand your role. Use our checklists if you want to dig deeper to check your website is compliant.
- School website: publishing information about the governing board
Find out what governing board information you're required to publish on your school website, and download our checklists for maintained schools and academies to make sure you haven't missed anything out.
- Publishing governing board minutes online
Understand expectations around publishing meeting minutes on your school website, and what the requirements are for making minutes available.
- Know your school: a checklist
There's so much information to know as a governor that it can be tricky to know where to start. Download our checklist to understand the key information you should know about your school and where to find it.
- How to review your complaints procedures: checklist, model and examples
Use our checklist to review the procedure for your school or trust, and make sure it complies with the law and reflects best practice. Be clear on what questions you can ask, and take a look at our model procedure to see what good looks like.
- How to review your whistle-blowing policy: checklist, model and examples
Academies are required to have a whistle-blowing policy. Understand the requirements and use our checklist and model policy to review the procedure for your school or trust.
- How to review your SEND policy and SEN information report
Find out what questions you can ask to review your school's special educational needs and disability (SEND) policy and SEN information report. Use our checklists to make sure your school is meeting the requirements, and download our model policy and report to see what good looks like.
- Monitoring safeguarding provision: checklist
Your governing board must make sure your school has effective safeguarding policies and procedures in place. Use our checklist to help you monitor your school's safeguarding practice in line with the latest version of statutory Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance.
- Instrument of government: model and checklist
Save time by downloading our model instrument of government for maintained schools. Use our checklist to feel confident when reviewing your own.
- Staying Ofsted-ready as a governor
Use our checklists to be confident that when Ofsted arrives, you've got everything under control. Download our list of questions that inspectors might ask governors, and follow our links to brush up on any areas you're not sure of.
- Clerk's induction: checklist and guidance
Know how to provide an effective induction for your new clerk so they can hit the ground running. A thoughtful induction process will also serve as evidence of your commitment to training. Download our checklist to make sure you've got everything covered.
- Careers guidance: statutory requirements (secondary)
Understand what you and your senior leaders need to do to provide compulsory careers guidance, while meeting Ofsted's 'personal development' requirements.
- How to review your child protection policy
Find everything you need to review and approve your school's child protection policy. Be clear on what key questions you can ask your school leaders, and use our model policy and checklist to make sure your school's compliant.
- School resource management self-assessment: summary and questions to ask
Academy trusts must complete the self-assessment checklist annually. Find out what questions you can ask your trust leaders to make sure your trust meets good financial standards.
- Headteacher's appraisal: chair of the appraisal panel
Be clear on what your role is as chair of the headteacher’s appraisal panel, and use our checklist of the process so you know what has to happen when.
- How to support a new headteacher
As a chair, be clear on how you can support your new headteacher and induct them effectively. Download our checklist to help you keep track of what you need to do.
- How to review your staff disciplinary procedures
Understand how to review your school/trust's staff disciplinary procedures, including questions you can ask. Save time with our policy checklist, and use our model policy to see what good looks like.
- Governors' allowances and expenses policy: model and examples
Download and adapt our model governors' allowances and expenses policy to stay compliant. Use our checklist when creating or reviewing your own policy and see examples of policies from other schools.
- Academy conversion: step-by-step process
Be clear on each step of the academy conversion process so you know what you need to do from start to finish. Use our handy checklist to keep track of the tasks to complete, to make sure everything's covered.
- A governance professional's guide to producing minutes
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Getting the minutes right is essential to your role as a clerk/governance professional. Read our top tips for taking and writing up notes, then use our handy template and checklist to save valuable time.