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To rasise an awareness of Contextual Safeguarding and enhance the understanding of the national agenda and Ealing's response.

Have you been asked to consider standing as chair or vice-chair of your governing body or to chair a committee?
Is your current chair/vice-chair likely to stand down soon and you suspect you may be approached to take over?
Have you considered standing but are not sure what is required and if you have the necessary skills?
Are you already a chair and would like to learn new strategies and meet other chairs to share good practice?
If the answer to any of these questions is & ...

This session will give governors a brief overview of GB responsibilities regarding SEN incl. the code of practice, the local offer, website requirements and any recent changes. It will also consider SEN in relation to resourcing provision incl. provision mapping, finance, monitoring progress of these children and constructive challenge/questioning. The session will be run by Dr Julia Coop

Best practice in auditing safeguarding

This follow up course is for governors, heads and safeguarding leads who have established/are establishing a systematic approach to auditing safeguarding in the their schools.

Besides opportunities to raise concerns and share good practice we will identify strategies for working through the audit tool(s) and recording evidence found during visits.

We will also scrutinise minutes of governors’ meetings when s ...

Please note change of time for this session only as a joint session. This briefing we have combined the chairs and clerks briefings to allow time for chairs and clerks to hear about key information together on current topics.

Agenda to be confirmed.

Please note that these meetings this year finish at 19:30 to include Ealing Learning Partnership (ELP) as a standard item on the agenda. 

This briefing will be run by Therese McNulty, School governance adviser. Gi ...

EHAP training aims to support professionals working with families to improve their understanding of the Early Help Assessment and Plan (EHAP) process in Ealing - offering children, young people and their families a simple route to multi-agency and targeted early help and support.

The DfE’s Governance Handbook and Competency Framework clearly define the role of governors as having three Core Functions; the second of these is: “Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils and the performance management of staff.”

Under the Leadership and Management criteria in Ofsted’s Inspection Handbook, the phrase constantly repeated is “And how well governors hold the headteacher/senior ...

Springhallow Outreach Autism Conference 2019 'Autism from Different Perspectives'

FRIDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2019  9am to 3pm 

Keynote speakers to include: a young people's autism advocate, parent advocate, Cian Binchy; performer, autism awareness trainer, public speaker on autism. 

Workshops to include: Behaviour management, Communication Strategies, Sex & Relationships, Structured & Enabling Environments, Mental Health & Anxiety ...

New Event

Currently school governing bodies are required to have elected parent governors. School governing bodies are also expected to act as Boards. Effective Governing Boards have a significant impact on school improvement and all Board members, including parent governors, need a sound understanding of their role and responsibilities. 

Parent governors are elected by other parents at the school. Any parent, or carer, of a registered pupil at the school at the time ...

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Event Introduction

Currently all school governing bodies have an elected Staff Governor. School governing bodies are expected to act as Boards and effective Governing Boards have a significant impact on school improvement. Board members, including Staff Governors, therefore require a sound understanding of their role and responsibilities. Staff Governors are elected by the school staff and they cease to hold office when they cease to ...