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.
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
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