To enable participants to explore effective inter-agency working in Child Protection Conferences and Core Groups.

This live, interactive training will be delivered via Microsoft Teams.

Important note: It is essential that you have completed the Safeguarding Children and Young People eLearning and the pre-course learning, prior to coming on this course (see additional information under full details), or you may be turned away.

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This session is an opportunity for Governors to meet with members of the Youth Cabinet for a Question and Answer session around Climate Change and talk about the environmental issues we all face and discuss energy usage in your school.

 **Governors should have attended an Introduction to Schools Finance prior to attending this course** 

The aim of this course is to build governors understanding of schools finance and to enable them to make a valuable contribution to the Finance/Resources Committee and Whole Governing Board.

This networking session will bring together governors from small schools to network and discuss Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing in small schools. There will be a particular focus on supporting the wellbeing of headteachers and senior leaders.

The voluntary nature of governance makes it important that governing boards conduct their business efficiently to make the best use of
everyone's time. Professional clerking has a vital role to play in meeting the requirements of the governing board and a strong and effective working relationship between the clerk and the chair of governors is key to this.

This course aims to promote effective governance by bringing both parties together to explore:

• The competency framework for governance and the clerking competency framework
• Efficient and effective working practice.

A briefing session for Local Authority Governors to keep them updated on the policies and direction of the local authority and the educational landscape.

Governors who are new to the role of Safeguarding Link Governors facilitated by the Safeguarding Support and Intervention Manager. The session aims to update safeguarding link governors on recent local and national issues and to give governors the opportunity to network with other governors and raise any queries, concerns or issues they may have.

Please note that due to a change in circumstance, this session is now open to both New Safeguarding Link Governors and existing ones. New SLGs will have the opportunity during the session to break out with Dion and raise any questions they may have.

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Induction is essential for all new governors and for longer term governors wishing to refresh, to help understand their roles and responsibilities.

An informal session, where clerks can pop along for an informal meeting with GCS to raise any questions and request advice as needed. Clerks may have a specific question or concern that the need support with, or they may simply wish to network with like minded clerks to share ideas, information and best practice. Come one, come all!

Follow my footsteps is a session aimed at supporting governors in all aspects of governing board succession planning. The session will look at what good succession planning looks like and will support governing boards to plan for changes in chair and vice chair and support boards in ensuring they have the right skills to carry out their key governor roles and responsibilities.