NGA Leading Governance Development for Chairs, Clerks and Boards.

NGA want to ensure you access DfE funding for our Leading Governance programmes at this critical time. A support network, a chance to develop leadership skills and amend practices to rise to the challenges that Covid 19 presents schools and trusts is something we are passionate everyone involved in school governance has access to.

We hope chairs and clerks who have not yet accessed the DfE funding (available for to up to two governors and clerks on all boards) will take the opportunity of registering for it whilst it is still available, by joining our new Summer 2020 cohort. You can access from between £350-£2000 worth of development for your board if you apply online and join the ‘Summer 2020’ cohort by clicking here for Chairs or here for Clerks.

All those who apply are able to access our eLearning and on-line evaluation tools, with the option of joining face-to-face workshops when it is safe to do so, or accessing this component of the programme in our upcoming virtual sessions. Once you have applied for your place, you will receive access to all course materials and online learning and can begin your journey to improved practise when it has never been more needed.

Our Development for Chairs programme is having definite impact in our schools, but don’t just take our word for it! Having recently completed the Development for Chairs programme, Simon Watson, Chair of Governors at St John the Evangelist CE VA Primary School in Oxfordshire writes about his experience including the value of building a supportive, sustained network of local chairs and the impact of the programme on his board’s practice in this blog. https://www.nga.org.uk/News/Blog/May-2020/Gaining-skills,-growing-confidence-and-making-an-i.aspx “I, like others in the group, have had some very difficult challenges to deal with since becoming chair, and this group has been instrumental in providing not only moral support, but high-quality impartial advice and guidance where we have been able to pool our collective knowledge to support each other in a confidential manner”, he writes.

We hope to hear from you soon, but if its not something you’d like to do, please do pass the email on, and encourage other members of your boards to register instead.

Kind regards,

Emma

Emma Balchin
Director of Professional Development