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Parental complaints are getting more frequent and more vitriolic. Explore how best to deal with them, including the Government guidance.
The deadline to start teaching the statutory Relationships Education curriculum arrives on 01 April 2021. As more children return to school, and as time progresses, the impact of the pandemic
Trusts with an annual income in excess of £50m per year are required to have a separate audit and risk committee. In this blog we discuss the considerations around both
The changes to internal audits. The Academies Financial Handbook dictates that all academy trusts must have some form of internal audit programme and in the latest update the Handbook clarified that the internal audit programme must cover more than just…
Consultation Background. In July 2020 the DfE completed the consultation and you can read the full outcome here. Financial Planning. So what are the expected main changes following the consultation
Adapting to New Ways. Over the past few months we have all had to adapt to communicating and working remotely and for a lot of us the current situation has forced us to come up with new ways of completing…
Schools are faced with awarding grades to children who were due to sit a public examination, as governors or trustees your role is to ensure the process is robust.
Focus on Business-Critical Decisions. Governance cannot be suspended during these uncertain times; our schools remain open and as governors we must ensure that we are supporting our Headteachers and CEOs
Companies all over the world have been busy putting emergency incident plans into place in order to be able to react to a situation where someone in the building tests positive for coronavirus