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Governor Services Offer

Quality Support for Excellent Governance – Working in Partnership

Training and Development

Our SLA offers a diverse and relevant range of opportunities to help governors successfully fulfil their roles and responsibilities and engage in key areas of school improvement and strategic management. Our service has been working in partnership with schools for over 20 years to develop and support school improvement with creative and effective governance practice.

Our training programme is open to governors from maintained, academy and free schools. It offers a wide range of courses, briefings and events which are led by high calibre, experienced governance practitioners, both from the local authority and independent providers. The contents of the programme are updated regularly to reflect changing legislation, local and national developments and initiatives and can be modified to meet the specific needs of an individual governing body on request.

According to the feedback received from governors and schools, our service is highly valued  and our aim is to continue to provide a quality service to suit your needs.

Key features A comprehensive annual programme of training courses and events for school and academy governors covering a wide range of governance and educational matters.

  • A range of induction modules offering a complete introduction to governance
  • Unlimited access to all centrally run courses and events – 15 to 20 sessions each term - for all members of your governing body.
  • A bespoke whole governing body training session in an area chosen by the governing body.  This will be tailored to meet the needs of the governing body and where appropriate will reflect the school’s information/data.

More information about training can be found at https://schools.southwark.gov.uk/governance/governor-training

We have purchased GovernorHub.  Schools in this SLA will be able to access training information and book training courses online.