Recommendations

Governing bodies and schools should:

• R1 Improve governors’ ability to challenge senior leaders about all aspects of the school’s work
• R2 Ensure that governors have regular and worthwhile opportunities to observe first-hand the progress that their school is making towards meeting its priorities
• R3 Undertake regular self-evaluation of the work of the governing body to identify strengths and areas to improve
• R4 Evaluate the impact of governor training on their role as effective strategic leaders and identify future training requirements

Local authorities and school improvement services should:

• R5 Evaluate the quality of their governor training more rigorously to make improvements where needed
• R6 Collaborate to ensure greater coherence and consistency in high-quality training opportunities between different parts of the country
• R7 Provide more effective support and advice to governing bodies to help them in their role as effective strategic leaders

The Welsh Government should:

• R8 Update the guidance for local authorities on what to include in training for school governors on understanding the role of data in supporting self-evaluation and improvement in schools in line with national changes to assessment practices
• R9 Produce information on the important role of parent governors to help encourage parents, particularly those from different ethnic minority backgrounds, to apply to become a parent governor
• R10 Create a competency framework to assist governing bodies improve their effectiveness