Governance
School governors focus on policy, strategy, budgeting and staffing, their main responsibilites are:
- Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic diredtion
- Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the school and it's pupils,
- Effective and efficient performance management of staff
- Overseeing the financial performance of the school and ensuring that it's money is well spent
Effective governance is based on six key features:
- Strategic leadership that sets and champions vision, ethos and strategy
- Accountability that drives up educational standards and financial
performance - People with the right skills, experience, qualities and capacity
- Structures that reinforce clearly defined roles and responsibilities
- Compliance with statutory and contractual requirements
- Evaluation to monitor and improve the quality and impact of governance