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Useful Websites

National Government:

Department for Education (DfE) Responsible for children’s services and education, including higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills in England. Working to provide children’s services and education that ensure opportunity is equal for all, no matter what their background or family circumstances.

Education & Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) The ESFA brings together the former responsibilities of the Education Funding Agency (EFA) and Skills Funding Agency (SFA) to create a single agency accountable for funding education and skills for children, young people and adults.

Gov.uk - Compare your school's budget: financial benchmarking Benchmarking allows you to check how your school’s finances compare with other similar schools.

Gov.uk - Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) Framework A framework to help schools to collect information about their income and expenditure.

Gov.uk - School and academy financial management and assurance Reporting for academies and local authorities, school procurement, risk protection arrangement (RPA), payments and compliance

Gov.uk - Schools financial value standard (SFVS) and assurance Guidance to help schools and local authorities complete the annual schools financial value standard (SFVS) and assurance forms.

Gov.uk - Schools financial efficiency: top 10 planning checks for governors Information for school governors to help make sure schools manage their resources efficiently.

Gov.uk - School funding School and academy funding - Free school meals, pupil premium and other school premiums, teacher training funding, school places.

Legislation.Gov.uk - Schools Standards and Framework Act 1988 An Act to make new provision with respect to school education and the provision of nursery education otherwise than at school; to enable arrangements to be made for the provision of further education for young persons partly at schools and partly at further education institutions; to make provision with respect to the Education Assets Board; and for connected purposes.

Office for Standards in Education, Children's Service and Skills (Ofsted) Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. We inspect services providing education and skills for learners of all ages. We also inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people.

Gov.uk - Governance Handbook and Competency Framework Guidance on the roles and duties of governing boards, and advice on the skills, knowledge and behaviours they need to be effective.

Gov.uk - The School Governance (Roles, Procedures and Allowances) Guidance to help school leaders and governing bodies understand their obligations and duties.

Other Websites:

Better Governor This website works with over 15,000 governors in more than 1,000 schools in England. They combine real-life experience of governance and clerking in maintained schools and academy trusts, with insight into education policy, legislation and practice relevant to governance, bringing what governors need to know, when they need to know it.

Governors for Schools Exists to improve educational standards so that children and young people have the chance to realise their full potential.

National Governors Assosiation (NGA) The National Governance Association (NGA) is an independent charity representing and supporting governors, trustees and clerks in maintained schools and academies in England. The NGA’s goal is to improve the wellbeing of children and young people by increasing the effectiveness of governing boards and promoting high standards.

The Key for School Leaders The Key provides high-quality, trusted information and online solutions to the education and wider public sector

Governance Forum Members of the Federation can join the governance forum and email group – a space for you to ask questions and advice from your fellow members.

Schools Week A website to stay ahead of the crowd on schools news, what the education secretary is planning or which school just got the best Ofsted ever!

Inspiring Governance Inspiring Governance connects skilled volunteers interested in serving as school governors and trustees with schools in England. It also provides free, expert support for volunteers and governing bodies, as well as for employers wanting to run programmes for their staff serving as school governors.

Birmingham City Council Birmingham City Council offers a variety of highly-valued services to schools across the county and, for the 2019/20 academic year, has an enhanced offer to include a number of new services, all available within one single point of access.

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