Effective Governance

• Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
• Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the effecitve and efficient performance management of staff; and
• Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent.

Effective governance is based on six key features:

Strategic leadership that sets the vision, ethos and strategy

• Accountability that drives up educational standards and financial performance
• People with the right skills
• Strucutres that reinforce clearly defined roles and responsibility
• Compliance with statutory and contractual requirements
• Evaluation to monitor and improve the quality and impact of governance