News from Governor Services
Governor Half Day Conference
The Conference will feature two workshops:
- A Guide to Admissions and Exclusions and the Governors Role
- School Website Requirements and the Complaints Toolkit
When: Tuesday 20th June
Time: 9.00am – 12.30pm
Where: The Warwick Trident College, Trident Park, Warwick, CV34 6SW.
Attendance at the conference is free to all subscribing schools and places can be booked by telephone: 01926 745120 or by email: governors@warwickshire.gov.uk.
(For more information see attached flyer).
In addition to providing Ofsted Parent View: management information, Ofsted have updated the Guidance on the Parent View Toolkit for Schools. The toolkit explains important facts about Parent View and contains materials that can be adapted and used by schools to raise awareness of Parent View to parents.
Records Management Toolkit for Schools
The Information Management Toolkit for Schools has been created by the Information and Records Management Society to assist schools to manage their information in line with the current legislative frameworks. The toolkit has been designed as guidance and it may assist Clerks and Governors when discussing the length of time documents need to be kept for.
Is Your School Website Compliant?
Even before you know you have an Ofsted Inspection an inspector will be checking your website to ensure it contains all of the statutory information that is mentioned in the Department for Education’s list of requirements for maintained schools and academies and that it is fully-up-to-date.
Why not use the following links to check your website:
What maintained schools must publish online, GOV.UK - DfE
What academies, free schools and colleges should publish online, GOV.UK - DfE
The School Information (England) Regulations 2008, legislation.gov.uk
The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012, legislation.gov.uk
The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2016, legislation.gov.uk
Academy and free school funding agreement: single academy trust, GOV.UK - DfE
For schools that subscribe to Warwickshire Governor Services or GovernorHub checklists to help you review your school website have been uploaded.
Governor Details on Edubase
As of the 1st September 2016 it has been as statutory obligation for all schools, maintained and academy, to register the details of all their governors on Edubase, the DfE’s register of educational establishments in England and Wales. However, compliance with this statutory requirement is still patchy across schools. Please note that it is the responsibility of the Governing Board to ensure that this statutory obligation is complied with, although the actual inputting of the data will be delegated to the school’s administrative team.
The information to be disclosed will need to include name, appointment date, the appointing body and for maintained schools, whether the governor is the chair of governors or a member of the governing body, and for academies, whether they are a trust member, a trustee, the chair of trustees or a governor on a local governing body. This information will be fully accessible by the public. Information that will also need to be supplied but not made available to the public will include each governor’s postcode, their date of birth, any previous names, their nationality and the chair’s email address.
Multi-Academy Trusts must also provide details of their local governing body members on Edubase.
Governor Training Events
Special Educational needs and the governing body
Monday 05 June 2017
1900 – 2100
Racemeadow Primary School
Atherstone
Child Protection and Safeguarding
Wednesday 7 June 2017
1000 – 1230
Warwick Trident College
Warwick
Quality of Teaching
Thursday 08 June 2017
1900 - 2100
Stratford-Upon-Avon High School
Preparing for Ofsted
Monday 12 June 2017
1900 – 2100
Boughton Leigh Junior School
Rugby
Engaging with Parents and the Community
Tuesday 13 June 2017
1900 – 2100
Aylesford School
Warwick
Leading Governance in School - Module 4
Thursday 15th June 107
0930 - 12.30
Honiley Court Hotel
Kenilwoth
Health & Safety - FOR ALL SCHOOLS WHERE WCC IS THE EMPLOYER
Thursday 15 June 2017
1500 – 1700
Stratford College
Stratford-upon-Avon
Health & Safety - FOR ALL ACADEMIES & SCHOOLS WHERE THE SCHOOL IS THE EMPLOYER
Monday 19 June 2017
1900 – 2100
Stratford-Upon-Avon School
Leading Governance in Schools
Tuesday 20 June 2017
0930 – 1630
Stratford College
Stratford Upon Avon
Effective Governance in the early years & Foundation Stage
Wednesday 21 June 2017
1900 – 2100
Boughton Leigh Junior School
Rugby
The Role of Academy Board Trustees
Thursday 22 June 2017
1900 – 2100
Myton School
Warwick
Induction: The effective governance of schools
Monday 26 June 2017
0930 – 1630
Bulkington Village Centre
Bedworth
Essentials - Update for experienced governors
Tuesday 27 June 2017
1900 – 2100
Myton School
Warwick
Induction: the effective governance of schools
Wednesdays 28 June,
5 & 12 July 2017
1900 – 2130
Racemeadow Primary School
Atherstone
Using School Performance Date - For primary school governors only
Wednesday 28 June 2017
1900 – 2100
Myton School
Warwick
Clerking exclusion, appeals & complaints hearings
Thursday 29 June 2017
1000 – 1230
Stratford College
Stratford-upon-Avon
Child Protection & Safeguarding
Monday 3 July 2017
1845 – 2115
Racemeadow Primary School
Atherstone
Finance (part 1) - Introduction to budget planning & monitoring
Tuesday 04 July 2017
1900 – 2100
Stratford-Upon-Avon School
Finance (part 2) - Budget management a closer look
Tuesday 11 July 2017
1900 – 2100
Stratford-Upon-Avon School