Documents, Information and Useful Websites for Governors

Department for Education Responsible for children’s services and education, including higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills in England. Working to provide children’s services and education that ensure opportunity is equal for all, no matter what their background or family circumstances.

Education and Skills Funding Agency The ESFA brings together the former responsibilities of the Education Funding Agency (EFA) and Skills Funding Agency (SFA) to create a single agency accountable for funding education and skills for children, young people and adults.

Gov.uk - Compare your school's budget: financial benchmarking Benchmarking allows you to check how your school’s finances compare with other similar schools.

Gov.uk – Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) Framework A framework to help schools to collect information about their income and expenditure.

Gov.uk - School and academy financial management and assurance Reporting for academies and local authorities, school procurement, risk protection arrangement (RPA), payments and compliance

Gov.uk - Schools financial value standard (SFVS) and assurance Guidance to help schools and local authorities complete the annual schools financial value standard (SFVS) and assurance forms.

Gov.uk - Schools financial efficiency: top 10 planning checks for governors Information for school governors to help make sure schools manage their resources efficiently.

Gov.uk – School Funding School and academy funding - Free school meals, pupil premium and other school premiums, teacher training funding, school places.

Legislation.Gov.uk - School Standards and Framework Act 1998 An Act to make new provision with respect to school education and the provision of nursery education otherwise than at school; to enable arrangements to be made for the provision of further education for young persons partly at schools and partly at further education institutions; to make provision with respect to the Education Assets Board; and for connected purposes.

Office for Standards in Education, Children's Service and Skills (Ofsted) Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. We inspect services providing education and skills for learners of all ages. We also inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people.

EduLincs Lincolnshire County Council offers a variety of highly-valued services to schools across the county and, for the 2017/18 academic year, has an enhanced offer to include a number of new services, all available within one single point of access.

LCC Financial Services for maintained Business World (BW) -On! Schools • To assist schools with the effective management of its finances through a financial system and a support infrastructure of professional financial services. • Ensuring the best use of your budget and resources. • To support schools demonstrate how they have utilised additional funding streams such as Pupil Premium and Universal Infant Free School Meals.

LCC Finance Handbook A comprehensive guide to guide practice, covering, financial management, audit and example finance policy.

LCC Prime Account Schools Handbook A comprehensive handbook of financial procedures.

LCC Scheme for Financing Schools Details the formula used to calculate the school’s share.

LCC Schools Finance - Monitoring and Intervention Policy This document sets out the policy and procedures of the Local Authority (LA) with respect to monitoring and intervention of maintained schools’ finances.

Lincolnshire Learning Partnership • All children and schools in Lincolnshire are our collective responsibility. • Every child and school is known, valued and supported to achieve. • No school is more important than an individual child’s needs.

Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Board Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Board is a statutory multi-agency board made up of representatives from the Local Authority, Police, Health Service, Probation Trust, Youth Offending Service, the Voluntary Sector and others.

Lincolnshire Safeguarding Children Board – Training The LSCB and LASB currently offer a wide variety of safeguarding training that covers a diverse range of subjects, which supports the development of practitioners in Lincolnshire who work with children, young people and their families.

Lincolnshire Safeguarding – Virtual College – Enable – see above Register on this site (scroll down to find St Sebs Great Gonerby) to obtain access to various online safeguarding training modules including Safer Recruitment and Health and Safety

Lincolnshire Teaching School Alliance – Supporting Stronger Governance Provide support to strengthen the Governance of Lincolnshire Schools. Lincolnshire Teaching Schools Together (LTT), The Lincolnshire Learning Partnership (LLP), Lincolnshire County Council (LCC), Lincoln Anglican Diocese and the Leaders of Governance (NLGs/LLGs) work together to produce a comprehensive and coherent support offer to ensure stronger governance of schools and academies in Lincolnshire.

Better Governor This website works with over 15,000 governors in more than 1,000 schools in England. They combine real-life experience of governance and clerking in maintained schools and academy trusts, with insight into education policy, legislation and practice relevant to governance, bringing what governors need to know, when they need to know it.

Church of England Education and Schools Promoting education in schools, colleges and universities that allows children and young people to flourish in the widest sense.

Governors for Schools Exists to improve educational standards so that children and young people have the chance to realise their full potential.

Kyra Teaching School Alliance Kyra is a thriving Teaching School Alliance of over 50 schools in Lincolnshire who are committed to working together to secure the very best outcomes for children.

Mentally Healthy Schools – part of Heads Together Brings together quality-assured information, advice and resources to help primary schools understand and promote children’s mental health and wellbeing. Their aim is to increase staff awareness, knowledge and confidence to help them support the pupils.

National Governance Association (NGA) The National Governance Association (NGA) is an independent charity representing and supporting governors, trustees and clerks in maintained schools and academies in England. The NGA’s goal is to improve the wellbeing of children and young people by increasing the effectiveness of governing boards and promoting high standards.

Times Educational Supplement (TES) Educational materials, jobs, news and courses from and for the world’s best community of teachers and school leaders.

The Key for School Leaders The Key provides high-quality, trusted information and online solutions to the education and wider public sector

Third Space Learning Blog TSL Blog - Maths ideas, insights and inspiration for primary school teachers and leaders including Classroom Teaching, KS2 SATs, Maths Interventions, Maths Mastery, School Leadership

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