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The School Governor Service provides a consultancy, advice and guidance service to school governors. We are highly experienced in dealing with governing body and school leadership issues, members of the team are practising governors themselves.

 

The service provides an all inclusive package to school governors. This includes an annual training programme, providing a comprehensive range of courses for governors, access to guidance, advice and information about governance issues, a telephone helpline, half Termly newsletter (Notepad) and Termly 'Briefing Notes' to sign post issues of importance to governing bodies. In addition the service administers the recruitment and appointment of governors, maintains a database of all governors (approx. 3,000) and undertakes statutory work in relation to governing body constitution and procedures.

 

The three core activities provided for all governing bodies are:

 

  • The governing body constitution and procedural matters
  • Administering the process of governor recruitment
  • Ensuring governing bodies are aware of their responsibilities
 

We provide the following services to schools, governors and governing bodies on a subscription basis:

We hope that all governing bodies will opt for the all inclusive annual subscription to the Governing Schools package which is a combination of the training and advice packages.  However, there is the option to purchase the services separately. For information relating to the cost of subscruiption for your school please contact School Governor Service directly.

 

Support for Governors - A variety of groups exist to support governors in their work and to enable links betweeen governors and Education Bradford:

Governor Forums and Governor Advisory Group 

Contact Information 

John, Linda, Diane and Louise are happy to help.

 

school.governor@educationbradford.com

 

T 01274 385629

F 01274 385624

 

Bradford School Governor Service Learning Platform home.teknical.com/bradgovernors
 
The learning platform gives further detail about our services, together with information available to governors including model policies and copies of training materials from the courses in our prospectus.
 
 

History of School Governors

 

Governors have been in existence for over six hundred years and the first governing body was recorded in Winchester School.  In 1870 when schooling became the right of all children, it was laid down that every school should have group of local people to assist in running of the school.   The Education Act 1980 gave a right to parents to express a preference for school, to have a great deal of information about its policies and to have two elected representatives on governing bodies.  In 1981 in an Act designed to support children with special needs parents were given some influence on how needs were assessed and governors a duty to see that those needs were met.

 

The 1986 Education Act gave parents better representation and further rights to information, annual reports and an annual meeting to discuss the running of the school.

 

The 1998 School Standards and Framework Act increased parent governor representation in almost all schools and each LEA to have representation of parent governors on its education committee.

 
 Last Updated: 4/8/2008 Copyright © 2008