Download our skills audit
To help you and your board implement the Department for Education (DfE)'s competency framework for governance in your working practices, we have developed a skills audit based on the 6 key competencies of the framework.
The audit is designed to help you and your board to:
- Evaluate strengths and weaknesses with regard to different areas of the framework
- Identify development and training needs
Prioritise the parts of the framework that are particularly important in your own school's context.
Not a checklist
While the audit is based on the competencies the framework has listed for all members of the governing board, it should not be used as a checklist.
Look to your local authority
Gloucestershire County Council has produced a skills audit tool for the governing boards of its schools that sets out essential skills for all governors and asks them to rate