Our training services can be purchased individually, paying a set price for each course however, if you buy our SLA training package below, all training services are free when booking is completed. See below for more details.
Edsential will provide training to Governors through a series on of online training sessions and workshops. Edsential has developed a training model whereby delegates can be provided with a blended approach to learning using simple to access, pre-prepared resources to support delegates in engaging in short activities, live webinars and surgeries delivered by an experienced team of presenters.
New training sessions and Workshops are regularly added in response to the needs of Governors. All upcoming training is available in the categories above.
The Governor Training SLA provides unlimited access to all training sessions for all Governors at the school.
All training is:
Delivered Live (no generic sessions)
Clearly planned opportunities for delegate engagement through Q&A, breakout rooms and networking.
Presented by experts in the particular field including those working for Local Authorities.
Recorded and made available for delegates after the session for all Governors at the school.
We can offer bespoke and tailored training to full governing bodies, MATs, academies and school clusters.
All dated courses and training sessions can also be tailored to meet the needs of your school/setting. See below for examples of some additional training that is available:
Our team are not just minute takers and are rightly classed as Governance Professionals due to the expertise, support and guidance provided to schools. Above all, one of our team will become an integral part of the school and support the school in achieving its outcomes. We invest in knowledge and development to ensure that clerks have the skills and expertise to provide efficient administrative support and impartial advice and guidance.
Edsential’s School Governance Service is experienced in supporting schools with Complaints panels, Admissions Hearings, Exclusion Hearings and Disciplinary Hearings for both maintained and academy schools. We also provide support to Governing Bodies for Headship and Deputy Headship appointments.
Our clerking offer for 2021/22 is now available. Schools can view the details here but please get in touch if you have any questions or are interested in our team providing you with a clerking service.
Edsential offer a support package for school-employed, independent clerks. This is available to all schools not purchasing Edsential clerking.
This package supports Clerks in their role and provides advice on governance matters as required.
Governor Hub is an online service designed to help governing boards run efficiently. It is used by over 6,000 schools across the country. Governor Hub helps trustees, governors and clerks to communicate and store documents, membership details, meeting schedules and other information in one secure and accessible place.
This includes:
Statutory guidance for governing bodies of maintained schools and local authorities in England, May 2017 states:
“Local authority governors are nominated by the local authority but appointed by the governing body. The local authority can nominate any person who is eligible to be a local authority governor, but it is for the governing body to decide whether their nominee has the skills required to contribute to the effective governance and success of the school and meets any other eligibility criteria they have set. Local authorities should therefore make every effort to understand the governing body’s requirements and identify and nominate suitable candidates.
An individual eligible to be a staff governor at the school may not be appointed as a local authority governor”.
The guidance also states that “A key consideration in the appointment and election of all new governors should be the skills and experience the governing body needs to be effective. The skills they need are a matter for governing bodies to decide having regard to the Department’s Competency Framework for Governance”.
All Local Authority Governors in maintained schools need to be nominated by the Local Authority. The application form for Cheshire West and Chester can be downloaded by clicking the button below:
Once completed it can be submitted to schoolgovernance@edsential.co.uk where it will be considered by the Local Authority panel. Applications can take up to twelve weeks to process so please ensure that the applications for renewals are submitted in plenty of time so that terms of office do not expire.
The constitution of maintained schools governing bodies is outlined in The Constitution Of Governing Bodies Of Maintained Schools: Statutory guidance for governing bodies of maintained schools and local authorities in England.
Section 20 of the Education Act 2002 requires all maintained schools to have an instrument of government which determines the constitution of the governing body and other matters relating to the school. Part 5 of the 2012 Constitution Regulations makes provision regarding the contents and form of the instrument and the procedure for making and reviewing it. Every governor should have had sight of it, if not a copy of the document.
All Governing Bodies had to reconstitute by September 2015 by law, so your instrument of government should be relatively up to date, but it is good practice to review this annually. Any changes to the instrument have to be:
Your clerk will able to support you with this process.
