SUPPORT

• Advice and Support Available

• Additional Services

• School or Cluster Based Sessions

• Charges outside the Core Services Agreement

• Grants for school journeys/trips etc

   

ADVICE & SUPPORT AVAILABLE FOR:

- Recruitment fo Senior Staff
- Specific RE Appointments
- Induction
- Inset
- Maintenance & Improvements to Buildings
- Accounting, Insurance & Holding of Surplus Funds for Governing Bodies

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Additional Services

A wide range of additional consultancy, support and training services are offered by the LDBS for a fee. These fees are needed to fund this level of additional support but have been kept low and in some cases are subsidized. These are:

- Core Services
- Buildings Maintence Scheme

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School or Cluster Based Sessions

School or cluster based sessions involving staff and governors are welcomed. Governors may wish to consider asking for a session to be held at their school on one of the following topics, or other topics of their choosing :

1) RE and worship: their place in the school and governors' responsibilities
2) school policies: those required by statute, expected by Ofsted and those which represent good practice
3) whole school pay policy: requirements & suggestions for drafting and implementation
4) admission policies: the theory, practice and appeal procedures
5) pupil behaviour policies:exclusions procedures and appeals
6) roles and responsibilities: of governors of a voluntarily aided school
7) governors as employers: guidelines for good practice
8) appraising the work of the governing body: how effective are we?
9) recruitment & selection of staff: eight important stages are considered
10) the school's strengths and weaknesses: and how to set targets: a joint session with staff and governors
11) inspectors: the responsibilities of governors before, during and after an OFSTED inspection
12) school development plans: ways of evolving these crucial documents

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Charges Outside Core Services Agreement

- Specialist consultancy or support

- 2 hour sessions £100
- 1/2 day £150
- 1 day £300

- Central Governor Training Sessions are FREE for individual governors at schools who have bought into the Core Service Agreement. For governors at schools who have not bought in, the charge will be £30 per person per session.

- School based sessions are £50 for those schools who have bought into the Core Service Agreement and £200 for those who have not.

- Insurance cover* (fire, perils, legal expenses, public liability) separate agreement and cost

*Insurance cover: The LDBS arranges insurance cover for voluntarily aided schools in respect of governors' liabilities for fire and perils; public liability; and legal expenses. Governing bodies are invoiced separately for this.

Schools not subscribing to the Core Service Agreement will be invoiced for individual services.

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