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21 August 2008
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Improving behaviour and attendance: guidance on exclusion from schools and Pupil Referral Units - New guidance on exclusion is available. Click here to find the guidance. |
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29 July 2008
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Autumn Term 2008 Briefing Papers for governors are available for download. They can be downloaded as Word document or as a PDF file. |
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22 July 2008
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Leicestershire's Children and Young People's Plan 2008 to 2011 can be viewed here. |
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11 June 2008
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Click here to download the Governor Development Service Annual Report for 2007/08.
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10 June 2008
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Leicestershire Governor Development Service has purchased a new e-learning service just for school governors. It is available, at not cost, to all governors. E-learning is effective when combined with other forms of training, which is why Modern Governor is a great addition to the training already provided by Leicestershire Governor Development Service. Click on Modern Governor to access the website. |
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10 June 2008
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Refocusing the Role of Governors - Annual Joint Conference 2nd June 2008 CSN's conference, run in association with COGs, ContinYou and the NGA, at the beginning of June looked at Refocusing the role of governors. Over 240 governors and local authority governor support services were represented at the conference. Presentations from the event and the key note speech made by Jim Knight MP, Minister of State for Schools and Learners are available to download. |
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15 May 2008
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Governor Development Service is organising a School Governors’ Conference on Saturday 22 November 2008. The theme for the conference is: ‘Leading schools where EVERY child DOES matter’. The conference will take place at Brockington College, Enderby. Click here for more information and booking form. |
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12 May 2008
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Governor Mark is a governing body self-evaluation tool based on the descriptors for governance found in the 2003 - 2005 Ofsted Framework. This remains the finest description of what good governance looks like. It is a kite mark which provides external evaluation of the quality of governance in a school. Leicestershire is working with GLM Partnership to develop Governor Mark. Click here for more information. |
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6 May 2008
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Governor Development Service are in the process of transferring governor records onto a new database. Click here to find out more about the process. |
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20 February 2008
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Link Governors can download a framework for recording governing body learning and development activities, a useful tool for identifying governors' strengths and areas for development. |
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3 January 2008
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The Leicestershire Governor Training and Development Programme 2008/09 can be downloaded by clicking here. We are working in partnership with Northamptonshire Governor Services to provide a clerking service to Leicestershire schools. A copy of the service level agreement can be downloaded here. |
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7 April 2008
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Issue 3 of The Leicestershire Governor for Summer Term 2008 is now available online. |
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18 January 2008
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In January 2008, governors were given a briefing on changes to instrumental tuition. These changes remove the restriction on maximum group sizes for instrumental teaching and on provision of vocal tuition in school curriculum time. Memorandum 89 and appendices provide governors with guidance.on fulfilling their duties. |
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10 January 2008
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This links to the DCSF website containing main sections of the Financial Management Standard in Schools Toolkit including guidance for first-time users, a summary of the standard and the evaluation tools. |
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Autumn 2007
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Teachers' TV website contains information that governors may find useful. To visit the website click on the link. |
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Summer 2007
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Time off for public duties - Are you a school governor, magistrate or local Councillor? Did you know that if you carry out these and certain other public duties you are entitled to time off. Follow this link. |
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Summer 2007
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LSR (Leicestershire Statistics and Research Online) is a website that provides professional reports, in-depth analysis and data about Leicestershire.
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