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Chairs of governors programme
27 April 2012
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Welcome and housekeeping
2011/12 achievements and progress to date
NLG update
Leadership development update
Fellowship commission update
Update on achievements 2011-12
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Designated 66 National Leaders of Governance
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Awarded grants to 150 schools to hold a workshop on school improvement
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Over 1,200 delegates attended free SFVS training
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Over 900 registrations to attend one of the nine regional training workshops
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Written content for leadership development 3 units – preparing for pilot
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Devised a licensing strategy, working with the licensing team
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College representation provided at over 10 governor conferences
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Distributed nearly 20,000 copies of the Leading Governors booklet (printed
and electronically)
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National Leaders of Governance: update
STAGE
Cohort one date
Cohort one numbers
Online application
8 Dec – 16 Jan
Extended to 23 Jan
123 applications
Application review panel
23 January
79 passed review panel
NB: Appeals from two unsuccessful
applicants overturned at panel on 16 Mar
Assessment centres
8 Feb, 9 Feb, 7 March
74 attendees, and all invited to progress
to designation
(1 individual has subsequently withdrawn)
Training induction events
8 – 9 Mar, 16 - 17 Apr
67 attendees
(6 individuals could not attend and will be
inducted seperately)
Total number NLG
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NLG: Overview
Region
Phase
Primary
Secondary
Special
Total
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East
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East Midlands
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London
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North East
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North West
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South East
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South West
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West Midlands
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Yorkshire and Humber
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Total
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NLG: key priorities for
deployment and capturing impact
NLG deployments will provide support for a chair who …
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is new in post in a school given a notice to improve and governance was an
issue
whose head is working with an LLE and where governance is an issue
is new in post and whose head has just stepped up to acting headship due
to illness
is new in post, and school has just failed its first termly inspection after
going into special measures
has a difficult relationship with their head
wants support in securing information about children’s progress and
attainment so that the governing body can monitor and evaluate
NLG: aims, current status, and
source of deployments
Aim: 75% deployment of NLG by summer half term (1 June)
Current status for NLG (as at 26 April):
• 21% - deployed
• 69% – has had contact with College Associate; LA is aware of designation and
looking out for deployments
• 10% – have not yet been contacted by regional associates
Source of deployments:
• Local Authority - 8
• School eg NLE, LLE - 1
• Diocese - 1
• Own networks - 2
• Request to chairs of governors inbox – 1
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NLG: actions and next steps
Actions:
• College Associates meeting with their respective NLG and local authority to
source deployments for NLG
• NLG reviewing their own networks to source deployments
• Once deployed, NLG sends in deployment form
• At end of deployment, client chair sends evaluation form to capture impact
Next steps
• College using newsletters to raise awareness of NLG resource eg NLE and
LLE newsletter, College highlights
• Partner support requested for raising awareness of NLG resource eg
newsletters, articles
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Leadership development update
Development progress:
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Unit content has been through internal sign off processes including Paul
Bennett and Jane Doughty
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Online developers are now engaged to develop the unit content into 3
online units
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Hosted within a learning schedule on the National College website
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Online module containing downloadable elements; video, audio, handouts,
think-pieces etc
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Interactive scenarios to embed learning
Leadership development update
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Leadership development update
Test and learn delivery:
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Taking place in partnership with 4 organisations:
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Bristol Governor Development Services
Cheshire East Schools, Settings and Services
Leicester City Council Learning Services, School Improvement Team
South East Coordinators of Governor Services
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Each delivering between 1 and 3 units to groups of 15-20 participants
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Expecting 8 groups in total prior to the end of the Summer term
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Communications taking place locally and centrally from the College to
generate applications
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Leadership development update
Universal offer:
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Being developed in line with the transition to DfE.
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Public content will be available via:
www.education.gov.uk/nationalcollege/governors-role
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Membership content will remain at www.nationalcollege.org.uk
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Decisions relating to moving content which is currently public onto the
members’ area – Leading Governors booklet.
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Developing the Governing Schools area of the Members Library to include
full range of topics
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Leadership development update
Leadership of governors
National discussion group
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Leading Governors Booklet
Leadership development guide
Leadership competencies overview
Vignettes
Key policy updates
How to…
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Research
…drive school improvement
…manage the financial business
…meet your statutory obligations
…build your governing body
…recruit a headteacher
…encourage diversity and equality
Governance beyond education
 Case studies
 Research and policy
 Other relevant docs
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‘Doing the job’ discussions
Hotseats
Policy discussions
 Governance in education
Shared resources
 Uploaded into group
 Managed by online facilitator
Additional resources
 Online short courses
 Good practice for leaders
Licensing overview
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Looking to award c 20 licences each able to deliver nationally and/or locally
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Licensees will have flexibility around the delivery model
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Aiming for collaborations between organisations to ensure equity of access
in all regions
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Initial licence fee of £2,000 with annual fee of £750 per licence
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RRP £350 where charging takes place. May be offered as part of a
subscription/SLA arrangement at reduced rate.
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Training will be available for subject matters experts, lead facilitators and
administrative staff (cost included in the licence fee)
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QA will take place as per the College’s wider licensing strategy
Licensing overview
Next steps and timescales:
1 May 2012
Sign off licensing brochure
4 May 2012
Brochure published
12pm 28 May 2012
EOI Close Time and Date
1 June 2012
Invitation to apply issued
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WebEx for applicants
29 June 2012
Application return date
2 - 27 July 2012
College evaluation
31 July 2012
Licences awarded
September
Facilitator training & systems set up
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THE FELLOWSHIP
COMMISSION 2012
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The Challenge Question
How can school governance be
transformed to ensure that there
are no under-performing schools?
“I have never seen a distressed organisation [whose difficulties] could not
be traced back to ineffective governance.”
The Walker Report on Corporate Governance in UK banks and other financial industry entities.
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Introduction: Issues and opportunities
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The
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functions
information
incentives
interventions
innovations
The Right Functions - Core
1. Ensure clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
2. Hold Executive accountable for standards against
benchmarks
3. Ensure solvency and probity
4. Ensure leadership complies with statutory regulations
5. Engage stakeholders
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The Right Information
COMMUNICATIONS CAMPAIGN
• Seizing opportunities from increased flexibility in September 2012 and from
academy conversions
DATA DASHBOARD
• To have better informed, more challenging governance
TOOLKIT FOR GOVERNANCE
• Online, high quality support and training
• Job specifications/applications
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The Right Incentives
GOVERN FIRST
• More diverse citizenship engagement
• More young governors
• Partnership with business
• Raising the profile
• Raising the bar
THE OFFER
• Personal and corporate tax breaks
• Accredited training
• Wider moral purpose
OFSTED CLARITY
• Ofsted clear on the 5 core functions
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The Right Interventions
SCHOOLS REQUIRING IMPROVEMENT
• External review to prevent failure and promote improvement
• Governing Body required to review the 5 core functions
SCHOOLS IN SPECIAL MEASURES
• Interim Executive Boards (IEBs) within a 6 week timeframe
• Commission good and outstanding leaders
• IEB built around the 5 core functions
Safe
CORE+
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Vulnerable
REVIEW 5
CORE FUNCTIONS
Failing
NLG
SUPPORT
IEBs
The Right Innovations
NEW MODELS OF GOVERNANCE
• Governing more than one school
• Converter academies to contribute to system leadership
• Federations and chains to be inspected independently
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Key Proposals
THE RIGHT INFORMATION
• Data Dashboard
THE RIGHT INCENTIVES
• Govern First
THE RIGHT INTERVENTIONS
• Review governance in schools requiring improvement
THE RIGHT INNOVATIONS
• Multi school governance
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National College proposal for training and
support for chairs of governors 2012-13
Two proposals
1. A universal offer accessible to all chairs of governors
Subsidised elements available to chairs in defined priority groups (ie
underperforming schools) or areas (ie identified local authorities)
2. Local action-learning or learning groups which will develop
practice relating to effective governance and its impact on school
performance to be shared across the system
Builds on the work carried out in 2011-12 on the Chairs of Governors
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National College proposal for training and
support for chairs of governors 2012-13
1. Universal offer
1.1 Membership of the National College
1.2 Core training programme for chairs of governors
1.3 National Leaders of Governance
1.4 Workshops for governors on priority topics
1.5 Establishing effective working relationships between
chairs and headteachers
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National College proposal for training and
support for chairs of governors 2012-13
2. Targeted action-learning projects
The focus = on school improvement; promoting better
provision and improved outcomes for children
2.1 School improvement
2.2 Research and learning from reconstituted governing
bodies
2.3 School business managers and governing bodies
2.4 Peer support, review and self-evaluation
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