1. Investing in your Workforce Developing effective governance
Investing in your Workforce Developing effective Governace that holds the system to account
Investing in your Workforce
Developing effective governance
31 January, 2018
12:05
12:10
12:15
12:20
12:30
12:35
Content of the workshop:
SW - Welcome & introductions
- Key messages & the opportunities we have (holding the school-led system to account)
EW - The EMTSA Developing Stronger Governance programme - Future challenges
CF - The Northamptonshire Pilot.
All - Group work
All - Question & discussion time
Close 1
Steve Ward,, Charlie Furness, Ed Wydenbach
Steve Ward NLG Advocate

2. Investing in your Workforce Developing effective governance
Investing in your Workforce Developing effective Governace that holds the system to account
Investing in your Workforce
Developing effective governance
31 January, 2018
The purpose of governance is to provide confident, strategic leadership and to create robust accountability, oversight and assurance for educational and financial performance.
All boards, no matter what type of school/academy or how many schools they govern, have three core functions:
Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction and encouraging a culture of ambition
Holding the Headteacher & SLT to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the performance management of staff
Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent
these are reflected in:- - The School Governance (Roles, Procedures and Allowances (England) Regulations 2013, - The governors handbook The criteria Ofsted use to judge a schools governance 2
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3. Investing in your Workforce Developing effective governance
Investing in your Workforce Developing effective Governace that holds the system to account
Investing in your Workforce
Developing effective governance
31 January, 2018
What governance needs to do to be effective:-
Understanding of the responsibilities of governance.
Recognising the difference between governance and management
Remember:-
Vision & Strategy (ambitious expectations)
Financially solvent
Challenging of the HT’s & SLT’s (holding to account for performance)
Structure – clear lines of accountability i.e. Terms of Reference & schemes of delegation.
Leadership (the role of the Chair at all levels of governance)
Purposeful meetings, effectively managed
Engage in School to School support 3
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4. Investing in your Workforce Developing effective governance
What is different this year from last year
The shift from NCTL driving governance support to TS
Strategic School Improvement Fund (SSIF)
Sub Region Improvement Boards (SRIBs)
NLG Advocacy managed by the EMTSC Representative
In EM region there is a clear strategy to embrace effective governance as a tool to complement school management in improving education outcomes
What are our expectations from the workshop – Key messages
If you are part of governance support ensure you are not ignored
Work collaboratively with other governance support groups and with the wider school improvement support leaders.
Work collaboratively to identify areas where governance would benefit from support before it fails to prevent standards falling
hold the school-led system to account 4
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5. Investing in your Workforce Developing effective governance
EMTSA Developing stronger governance strategies:-
In each teaching school alliance
Link a NLG to each TSA
Each TSA to create new role LLG
Each TSA to develop one SLE with expertise in governance
In each sub-region area - see chart following slide
Each sub region to have an NLG area based coordinator
Each sub region area to develop & Manage an LLG Scheme
In the EM region
One regional NLG champion to lead, support & QA the regional scheme, reporting to the TSC, RSC and the key strategic partners
The EMTSA business support partner will provide extra capacity for the NLG champion and support regional elements e.g. QA, mapping etc 5 5
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6. Investing in your Workforce Developing effective governance
Map illustrating how the new region of East Midlands, South Yorkshire and Humberside (EMSYH) brings together 17 LA areas
York
East Riding
Hull
NE Lincolnshire
N Lincolnshire
Doncaster
Rotherham
Barnsley
Sheffield
Derbyshire
Nottinghamshire
Lincolnshire
Derby
Nottingham
Leicestershire
Leicester
Rutland 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 6
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7. Investing in your Workforce Developing effective governance
Progress so far:-
Cohort 10 designation round for NLGs attracted applications from EM LA areas. We await the designation outcomes.
The management of the Advocacy role transferred to the TSC rep for EM
LLG established in Derbyshire
Pilot group set up in Northamptonshire to look at ways of coordinating/integrating governance support and creating a LLG role (Charlie Furness to expand on this in a few moments)
In Lincolnshire five LLGs have been appointed by their chosen TSA
Review of the Advocate role:-
Regional Champion interviews took place 23 June Jane Lewis was appointed
NLG area coordinators for the four current Regions in EM – 4th July 7
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8. Investing in your Workforce Developing effective governance
The Northamptonshire Pilot
Background/Driving Principles :-
An identified need to increase capacity of Gov. support
A clear EMTSA strategy to develop Gov. support in local area
An initiative to explore ideas & improving the impact of gov. support
Key milestones :-
Establish a working group embracing all stakeholders
Funding
All identified gov. support considered alongside other school support
Recruit 5 LLGs
Establish a fully integrated TSA led school support provision 8
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9. Investing in your Workforce Developing effective governance
The Northamptonshire Pilot
Current position :-
Steering group in place
Recruitment and selection process in place, 2 x LLGs appointed
Lincolnshire mirrored process and have recruited 5 x LLGs
Most TSAs in Northamptonshire & Lincolnshire have NLG aligned
Funding under review
Coordinating of school to school support for both education & governance support being undertaken initially by (Maplefields TSA)
Induction and Training of LLGs arranged. (designations to follow)
Overview of all governance training being developed.
Quality Assurance QA being developed in conjunction with the NLG area coordinator roles. 9
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10. Investing in your Workforce Developing effective governance
The Northamptonshire Pilot
Next steps :-
Recruit additional LLGs in Northamptonshire
Establish process in Leicestershire/Leicester/Rutland area
Develop QA arrangements
Develop a cost model and funding source
Reaching Academies and MATs
Appointing SLE with expertise in governance
Centralising governor training provision & validation (where practical) 10
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Developing effective governance
EMTSA Good Governance Partners
Teaching School Council Representative
National College for Teaching and Leadership
NLE
NLGs
LLGs
Regional Champion
Good effective governance that holds the System to Account
Governance Regional Champion
NLG area based coordinator LA
Diocese
Academies
MAT
RSC
TSAs
SLE
LLG 12
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13. Investing in your Workforce Developing effective governance
Working in small groups consider the following question’s
1. Please consider the challenges & relative merits of the following when implementing the EMTSA Stronger Governance Strategy
Engaging all schools in your mini region
Recruiting LLG
Cost model and funding
Evidencing school improvement as a result of more effective governance
Collaborating effectively with other TSA
Reaching Academies and MATs
Centralising the governor training
Appointing SLE with expertise in governance
Centralising quality assurance controls
2. Consider the relative merits of teaming up NLEs. LLE & SLEs with NLGs/LLGs in a school/academy where leadership and management is shown to be inadequate 13
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Investing in your Workforce Developing effective Governace that holds the system to account
31 January, 2018
Investing in your Workforce Developing effective governance
Thank you, now for feedback on group work and question time 14
Steve Ward, Charley Furness, Ed Wydenbach
Steve Ward NLG Advocate