Resources

DfE- School Governance Update

Governance Professionals & Clerks

Support for Clerks from The Devon Association of Governance

Ofsted

Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. They inspect services providing education and skills for learners of all ages and also inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people

DCC Education & Learning Annual Performance Report 2022

Based on published data to 25.10.22

Effective Chairs – Termly Update

The focus for this Spring term will inevitably be funding as we all work towards setting budgets for 2020/21 and beyond.  It does seem that school funding has been a persistent theme of the last few years and it is likely to be the same for 2020 as the promises made during the election campaign work their way into local authority and school budgets, hopefully

Busy Governance Guides

DAG recognises that governors don’t always have lots of time to search out the latest information on areas of good practice or Department for Education (DfE) initiatives so DAG has come up with concise guides on a variety of subjects to help make the most of your time

Academies

Devon has a variety of categories of schools and therefore an array of governing boards with different composition and styles, when it comes to the work of the governing board we are all the same in that we are asked to act in the best interests of the children in our schools

Fit For Purpose Quiz

How effective are you as a governor or trustee on your board? Perhaps you might encourage your board to try our Fit for Purpose Quiz to find out if you and your board members may need a bit of extra support to become more effective.

School Funding

Keeping Devon schools up to date with the changes to schools’ funding

Glossary

You can find a list of the terms that are most commonly used throughout our site below.

Useful Websites

Please find below some websites which may contain useful information for school governors and clerks