School Governance Unit: Training & Development

Governor Training and Development is part of Advisory Service Kent and schools are able to purchase its services. Most do so by buying an annual package, using part of their Standards Fund.

We provide training and development for governors, headteachers and clerks across Kent and we do this by:

• providing an annual conference on topical issues
• providing a published, comprehensive and flexible programme of training for individual governors which addresses both national and local priorities
• focussing particularly on school improvement and better outcomes for Ofsted inspections
• focussing on the importance of school self evaluation, planning and awareness of the Five Outcomes for Children and inclusion of vulnerable groups
• emphasising the governors’ strategic role as part of the leadership of the school
• facilitating induction sessions for new governors
• facilitating induction sessions for new chairs of governors
• buying into an online training package for governors to access
• the provision of tailored bespoke sessions for individual governing bodies, groups of schools and local partnerships which focus on local needs
• by administering the clerks’ training programme
• individual mentoring and coaching.