Governors' skills audits

Evaluate your strengths and weaknesses using our downloadable skills audit, based on the competency framework - or find out how to create your own audit using free online tools.

Last reviewed on 7 July 2021
School types: All · School phases: All
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Contents
  1. Download our skills audit 
  2. Look to your local authority
  3. Create your own online skills audit

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