School governors support

Overview

We offer support for school governing bodies and individual governors. Our service helps you understand and carry out your role effectively, as part of the school leadership team.

We provide support with:

clerking, advice and training
panel hearings, complaints and investigations
Ofsted inspection preparation

Service details and costs

Clerking, advice and training

Clerking

Our clerking service includes:

clerking for 3 full governing board meetings
half-termly email updates on national and local issues

Advice and training

We offer advice and training on:

Ofsted preparation, including bespoke advice in meetings and responses to queries
board membership and attendance
strategic planning
legal advice
skills audit
ongoing remote support and updates

If your school has an independent clerk, contact us for a bespoke support package.

Costs

	Schools in Royal Greenwich	Schools outside Royal Greenwich
Clerking, advice and training	£3,589	£3,948
Advice and training	£897	£987
Additional clerking per meeting when bought with package in advance	£238	£262
Additional clerking per meeting when not bought with package in advance	£264	£291
Charge for each 30 minutes clerking over 2 hours	£21	£23
Cancellation charge for less than 48 hours notice	50% of meeting cost	50% of meeting cost

Panel hearings, complaints and investigations

Panel hearings

support with constitution development
preparation and circulation of documents
production and circulation of minutes

Complaint support

advice on process and response

Investigation support

advice on process and response
coordination of investigators
document preparation
production and circulation of meeting minutes

Costs

	Panel hearings, complaints and investigations
Schools in Royal Greenwich	£42 per hour
Schools outside Royal Greenwich	£46 per hour

Ofsted inspection preparation

We offer an additional support package to help governors prepare for Ofsted inspections. this includes:

2 on-site support and training sessions
an Information ‘grab pack’

Costs

	Support and training session 1	Support and training session 2	Information ‘grab pack’
Schools in Royal Greenwich	£185	£185	£53
Schools outside Royal Greenwich	£204	£204	£58

Other services

We also offer:

governance reviews
bespoke governor training
academy trustee support
school-based safer recruitment whole day training for staff and governors

Costs

	Schools in Royal Greenwich	Schools outside Royal Greenwich
Governance review	£507	£557
Governor training - up to 3 hours	£50 per person	£70 per person
Governor training - full day	£125 per person	£155 per person
Bespoke governing board training	£264	£291
Academy trustees bespoke training	Contact us	Contact us
School-based safer recruitment	£498	£548