Duration: full day
Time: 09:30 - 15:30
12 places available
Price: £285
Address: Church Lane, Budbrooke, Warwick CV35 8QL
Lunch will be provided
Attending this session will provide clerks with
knowledge and advice about:
• Duties of the clerk and what these look like in practice
• Access to the essential documentation needed
to carry out their duties
• ‘The Governance’ Handbook’ – the legal framework to which governing boards work
• Key roles and responsibilities of the governing board; particularly their duty to promote
school improvement and challenge any areas of underperformance
• Ways in which the work of the clerk can be timetabled to ensure that time is used effectively
• Taking minutes which record the level of challenge provided by the governors and the
response of the school’s leadership
• Managing governor vacancies, including conducting governor elections
• Importantly, it will provide clerks with information about how they can keep up to date with
developments