AoC Governance Update Josie Ormondroyd, Governance Manager
The Governance Unit
Representation - Support - Development
Director of Governance – David Walker
Governance Manager – Josie Ormondroyd
Governance Administrator – Guram Korkoti
Recruitment Manager (Governance) – Fiona Telford
Ambition and Outcomes
Through the programme ensure the college sector :-
1. Utilises the freedoms and flexibilities to develop new empowered strategic leadership with greater responsibility for, and ownership of, strategy and direction;
2. Responds effectively to the changing needs of a dynamic economy and society, through effective dialogue with business and local partners;
3. Has strong and empowered governors, clerks and senior college leaders who will have a positive impact on individual college performance and the whole sector.
4. Ensure governors and clerks equipped with the right level of skills, attributes, characteristics, behaviours and experience are able to deliver the best programmes possible to their students.
5. Governors who are feeling supported and recognised.
6. Establish benchmarks that set the standard for other sectors.
Creating excellence in governance
1
Representation and
Information
2
Support for Governors
3
Governance Development
Code, Guidance Helpline
Topical, expert and standard
briefings, Hot topics
Excellence in Governance
Website Resources
1. Accountability and value for
money 2.
Localism
Good Practice
Recruiting, Induction
4. Excellence in Teaching and
Learning 5.
Fit for Delivery
3. Advocacy
and Partnership
Drivers and Issues for 2015-2016
External Drivers
1 Area Reviews - Localism- devolution debate and employer interaction
2 Standards- raising performance and meeting Ofsted’s expectations
3 Programmes of Study and RPA
4 Austerity measures and the reduced unit of funding
5 Prevent Strategy
Sector Drivers
6 New Structures
7 Commercialisation
8 Embedding the new Code of Good Governance
9 Putting in place the tools for the NLG to carry out board effectiveness exercises and advise on strategic options
10 Increasing communication of the offer
Governance Programme 2015-16
ETF Funded Governance Programme
• Webinars
• Regional Programme
• National Leaders of Governance (NLG)
AoC Governance support
• Governance Helpline
• Briefings and updated Governance Website
• Governance Summit, 2 March 2016, London
Webinars
Next webinar:
13th October
The new Common Inspection Framework (CIF) – what it
means for governance
Listen again:
The Area Review process
Determining new college structures
FE policy in the new parliament
Implementing the Code of Good Governance
Regional Programme
• New governor inductions
• Student governor induction
• Good practice workshops
• Staff Governor event
• Regional Governance Summit
• Clerk, Chair and Governor networks
NLG support
We have 19 NLGs across all AoC Regions.
An NLG can work with individual chairs and boards on:
• Improving college performance
• Supporting the chair of governors
• Improving board effectiveness
NLG support
We are particularly interested in hearing from colleges who have:
• Not previously accessed an NLG
• Recently been inspected and received a lower Ofsted grading for ‘overall
effectiveness’ or ‘leadership, management and governance‘
• Identified in their self-assessment report areas for improvement in
Governance
• Experienced a change of Leadership (Chair or Principal)
• There is a change of circumstances or provision in their area/region
• Any other significant factor is present
Clerks’ Induction, CPD and training
Clerks’ Induction
Clerks’ CPD
• Diplomacy & Influencing Skills
• Managing Challenging Clerking Situations
• The Role of the Trustee and Charity Law
• HE Award (Level 5) in Governance for Clerks
Area Review support
• AoC Governors’ Council have been influential in shaping the Area
Review process, in particular on college autonomy.
• Governance Development Programme support through webinars,
Regional meetings and summits, NLG support
• Area Review Conferences with live streaming:
9 October - Rugby
21 October - Manchester
• Further ‘Lessons Learned’ Conference likely in early spring