Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
IS IT TIME TO PROFESSIONALISE CHARITY BOARDS?
Dinner sponsors:
Media partner:
Partner sponsor:
CHAIRDAN FRANCISGOVERNANCE CONSULTANT, NCVOSPEAKERSIAN JOSEPHCHIEF EXECUTIVE, TRUSTEES UNLIMITEDJUDITH DAVEYCHIEF EXECUTIVE, THE ADVOCACY PROJECTTONY BRESLINFOUNDER, USE YOUR VOTE, CHAIR, OASIS ACADEMY ENFIELDDIRECTOR, BRESLIN PUBLIC POLICY LIMITED
TONY BRESLIN
FOUNDER USE YOUR VOTE, CHAIR OASIS ACADEMY ENFIELD,DIRECTOR BRESLIN PUBLIC POLICY LIMITED
Dinner sponsors:
Media partner:
Partner sponsor:
EXPERTISE, ENGAGEMENT AND
CONNECTEDNESSCAN WE HAVE IT ALL?
LESSONS FROM - AND FOR - THE GOVERNANCE OF OUR SCHOOLS
School governance – a scoping study
A scoping study focused on the future of school governance
Commissioned and hosted by the RSA
Funded by the Local Government Association, The Elliot Foundation and RSA Academies
Supported by an “Expert” Group drawn from the LGA, The Elliot Foundation, the National Governance Association, the Association of School and College Leaders, the Centre for Public Scrutiny, the Catholic Education Service and RSA Academies
Launched: January 2016; Publication: May 2017
School governance – the direction of travel
Increasing calls for ‘professionalism’ and ‘effectiveness’
Collaboration, federation and ‘academisation’, and the rise of the Multi-academy Trust (MAT)
The shift of governance up-stream at every level – away from Head Teachers to Executive Heads and Chief Executives, away from individual schools to MATs, and away from Local Authorities towards Regional School Commissioners and central government
The (almost unnoticed) transfer of state schooling into the third sector
A tendency for school governance reform to be accidental rather than deliberate, and retrospective rather than pre-emptive
Questions for Discussion
1 What can different sectors learn from each other about governance?
2 How might engagement in governance contribute to personal development and community wellbeing?
3 How do we balance the need for professionalism and effectiveness with the need for community engagement and involvement?
4 In professionalising our governance arrangements and moving these up-stream, do we risk some of the issues that have arisen with, for instance, the professionalisation of our politics?
5 How do we ‘grow’ governance expertise in our communities, whatever the social capital these communities start out with?
6 What benefits might flow from the relocation of state schooling in the third sector?
Some tentative suggestions
1 A cross-sector commission on governance
2 A stronger recognition of the wider benefits of engagement in school and charity governance
3 A focus on growing expertise in local settings
4 A focus on developing governance-literacy sector wide (and across sectors), rather than on simply ‘training’ those who take up governance roles
5 A national cross-sector campaign to boost engagement in governance, especially amongst under-represented groups
6 Greater representation of those involved in educational and charity governance on Corporate Boards
Feedback
www.breslinpublicpolicy.com
JUDITH DAVEY
CEO, THE ADVOCACY PROJECT
Dinner sponsors:
Media partner:
Partner sponsor:
IAN JOSEPH
CEO, TRUSTEES UNLIMITED,MANAGING DIRECTOR RUSSAM GMS
Dinner sponsors:
Media partner:
Partner sponsor:
IS IT TIME TO PROFESSIONALISE CHARITY BOARDS?
Dinner sponsors:
Media partner:
Partner sponsor:
QUESTIONS
