Honeyguide School Leader Support
Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities Pack
Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities Pack
This bundle is perfect for headteachers, trust leaders, governance professionals and chairs of governors who wish to support governors or local board members to gain a clearer understanding of their roles and responsibilities as part of a school's governing body.
The ten editable role and responsibilities templates will help your governing board to gain a clearer picture of the types of tasks they should be undertaking as part of their governor role, including how their actions should have a strategic (rather than operational) focus. This includes suggestions for the policies they should understand, which members of staff they should build strong relationships with and the aspects that are unique to that individual link governor role. Each template is fully editable, allowing you to customise, amend and agree the role and responsibilities with each link governor, with the option to utilise these as a governor role terms of reference document if you wish.
👉 For support with a specific link governor role, the relevant link governor role and responsibilities template is also available in our individual link governor support packs. These packs also include full audits that can be used in a collaborative manner between schools leaders and governors, plus a reporting to governor template to support governors to have a better understanding of the school, leading to more effective governance.
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What's included in this bundle?
This pack is designed to support effective governance in schools. It contains ten editable link governor roles and responsibilities templates (MS Word .docx format); each one will support school leaders, chairs of governors and governance professionals to help each governor or local board member to understand the duties and responsibilities associated with their area of school governance. This enables link governors to better understand their purpose in order to better support the school and hold its leaders to account for their decisions.
The role and responsibilities templates in this pack include the following areas:
- Attendance
- Behaviour
- Curriculum
- Finance
- GDPR and Data Protection
- Health and Safety
- Pupil Premium
- Safeguarding
- SEND
- Staff, Pupil and Community Welfare
Each link governor roles and responsibilities document is designed to support each governor to understand their purpose in the governing body, ensuring that the full governing board fulfils its core functions linked to the educational performance of the school and the sound, proper and effective use of the school’s financial resources.
Who will find this resource useful?
Anyone who wants to support their governors to better understand their roles and be more proactive, effective and strategically involved (rather than operationally) will find this pack extremely useful. The ten templates are consistent in nature, allowing headteachers, trust leaders, governance professionals or anyone else involved in building effective governance in school to ensure the governors and/or local board members have a strong understanding of what they should be doing to learn, challenge and support the school and its leaders.
What questions does this pack have the answers to?
This report to governors template bundle will help schools answer key questions such as:
- How can I support governors to better understand their role?
- How can I support governors to better understand my school?
- How can governors collaborate with school leaders to identify areas for improvement and ensure the best outcomes for pupils?
What else can help me?
You may find our other governance resources resources helpful too!
These roles and responsibilities link governor templates are also available in individual link governor support packs. These packs include the relevant governor role and responsibilities document plus a comprehensive audit template and a report to governors template. You can find these link governor support packs here.