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This webinar will explore the elements that make a Good Board. Areas that will be covered are: the role of the Chair, Head and Clerk; recruitment and succession planning, meetings and committees, safeguarding, self-evaluation – AGBIS Reviews, difficult conversations and the difference between governance and management.

This will be an informal online session held via zoom, giving clerks the opportunity to stay connected. You will be invited to put forward any questions or topics that you would like to discuss or find out more about. We will aim to address as many of these as we can through the meeting and help you build and strengthen your networks to make sure you have the support you need. This session will be held via zoom and will not be recorded.

This seminar is the essential introduction to governance for new governors and will include governance from the Head’s perspective, governors’ role and responsibilities and allow discussion groups on typical issues facing school governors.

Richard Harman and Cheryl Connelly will provide members with the latest updates from the sector.

This seminar in association with Stone King, will look at a legal update, with a specific focus on change in emphasis and further proposed developments in the independent inspection regime, and the changes in safeguarding governance from 1 September under the updated version of Keeping Children Safe in Education. This seminar will also look at the wider emphasis on the safeguarding culture, the expectations around identifying and monitoring trends and look at some of the lessons coming out of recent casework.

Richard Harman and Cheryl Connelly will provide members with the latest updates from the sector.

AGBIS and ISBA will be running an online webinar for clerks to enable best practice to be shared as well as networking opportunities.

This webinar led by Cheryl Connelly, Director of Training, AGBIS and John Murphie, COO, ISBA, looks at the seven key principles of the Charity Governance Code and gives Clerks practical guidance on how to apply them.

This joint AGBIS/ISI webinar will look at the KCSIE changes from September 2021 and enable Governors to answer the question: How do we know? Trust but verify regarding the RSHE curriculum. This webinar is being led by Michelle Winter - ISI’s Director of training and quality of assurance.

This three-part box set will address key areas of Governance that relate specifically to boarding schools and provision and are unlikely to feature in Governance of other education settings. These include oversight of boarding accommodation, boarding staff recruitment, residential staffing models, considering the National Minimum Standards for Boarding and UKVI sponsor responsibilities that come with welcoming international students.