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“Schools judged outstanding are likely to have highly successful strategies for engaging with parents to the benefit of pupils, including those who find working with the school difficult." This training supports schools looking to make a positive change in their approach to parental engagement.

Libby Giaraputto and Sarah Jay from the School Partnership and Enrichment Team and Nicky Batkin from Ealing’s School Travel team will deliver this session explorin ...

The briefing is a chance for all clerks to governing bodies to hear about new legislation which will affect the work of the govening bodies and hear about best practice. There will also be an opportunity to network with clerks from other schools. In addition to an update on key national/local issues and changes.This session will be run by Therese McNulty, school governance adviser

Agenda to be confirmed

The chairs briefing is an opportunity for all current, committee or aspiring chairs to hear about key information on current topics. We also welcome any governors who have a responsibility or are part of a committee for areas in the agenda also. Given the speed of change and wealth of new information we recommend that all chairs and clerks attend or send a representative if possible.

Agenda to be confirmed.

Please note that these meetings this year finish at 20:30 to include E ...

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 ...

Please note this is a 2 part training course - Thursday 6 June & Thursday 20 June 2019.

This course provides all new/nearly new governors/trustees and clerks with an essential understanding of their role and key responsibilities. In all school settings, boards should have a strong focus on the three core functions:

•      Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction

•  &n ...

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.

Statutory safeguarding training requirements for schools are detailed in the DfE guidance document Keeping children safe in schools and colleges. In brief the guidance says that: •Whole school staff training is required to be an on-going process with at least one formal training every year (at least every two years to be delivered by external providers) •Designated lead teachers for child protection are required to have initial training and refresher training at least every two year ...