Being a School Governor in England
eBook - ePub

Being a School Governor in England

All You Need to Know

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eBook - ePub

Being a School Governor in England

All You Need to Know

About this book

An essential book for all existing and aspiring school governors in England which tells you everything you need to know about the role. Across primary and secondary, each of the roles within the governing body are fully outlined including teacher, parent, community and foundation school governors.

It explores the responsibilities of school governors and covers all different types of schools including multi-academy trusts. Meetings, safeguarding and governor's roles in monitoring are discussed, and much more.

Using case studies to illustrate how governors work within schools, each chapter also outlines the key issues through discussion points, checklists and suggested activities to use with small working groups, committees or full boards. With the author's own extensive experience of being a governor at both primary and secondary level, the reader can be assured that they are receiving excellent advice and will be fully prepared to take up their governor role.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040375761

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Meet the author
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1: Governance
  10. Chapter 2: School governors
  11. Chapter 3: External governors
  12. Chapter 4: Specific roles on the governing body
  13. Chapter 5: Governors’ meetings
  14. Chapter 6: Governors’ role in monitoring
  15. Chapter 7: School governors and controlling bodies
  16. Chapter 8: Governance and inspections
  17. Chapter 9: Further support
  18. Glossary of useful terms
  19. Index