Our Governor Support Service provides high quality advice and guidance to -
- School Governors
- Head Teachers
- Principals
- Committee Clerks
to support them in their role. This is complemented by a comprehensive and tailored programme of training covering all aspects of -
- education and legislation to address roles
- legal responsibilities
- best practice
How to access this service
Use the online form below to apply to be a school governor -
What happens next
All enquiries of a general nature will be responded to within 1 working day.
Service Features
- high quality
- reliable
- responsive support
- to Governing Bodies
- Principals
- Clerks
- individual Governors
- produce newsletters and guidance documents
- provide knowledgeable advice based on many years of experience in school governance
- maintenance of a governing body database
- extensive databank of policies
- comprehensive training development programme and tailored sessions for individuals
- database of membership of governing bodies maintained
- records of attendance at full governing body meetings maintained
- secure storage of past minutes and confidential information
- membership of joint governors association with Hull and East Riding governors (GATHER)
- annual joint conference with East Riding area for all Hull governors
- support and mentoring for governors who are studying for the National Leaders in Governance qualification
Benefits to schools
- 30 years of successfully supplying services to governors
- an experienced team who work closely with school improvement officers
- highly customer focused
- governors are key stakeholders in school improvement
- good quality and cost effective service
- flexible service and pricing
- chair and governor briefings arranged each term to share best practice and relevant information
Service standards
- minutes and other documents produced at meetings will be distributed to schools within 14 or 28 days as agreed by the school
- all school governors are offered training to improve their knowledge to carry out the role
Find out more about our general service standards
Statutory Service
- manage the nomination process for the appointment of Local Authority Governors
- instruments of government for all maintained schools
- offering advice on governance policy
- statutory regulations and procedure for schools
- trusts and academies
- provide a comprehensive training programme and tailored sessions directly through the Governors Team
Please take a look at the latest issue of our 'In Touch' newsletter which is distributed to governors throughout Hull. It includes a lot of useful information to support effective governance as well as training courses available to governors in the current school term.
