Effective Financial Management to Ensure Best Value
-: “Effective Financial Management to Ensure Best Value"
Dear Colleagues/Governors,Dear Colleagues,
School governors and academy trust members and trustees have an important role in ensuring high standards of achievement for all children and young people in their school.
You do this by:
- setting the school’s vision, ethos and strategic direction
- holding the headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils
- overseeing the financial performance of the school, making sure its money is well spent
Good financial performance delivers better outcomes. School governors have a duty to oversee the financial performance of the school by asking the leadership team question such as:
- how confident are you that school curriculum planning achieves the maximum benefit from funding for the pupils?
- has the school reviewed the efficiency metric tool(available on gov.uk website)?
- how can the school be more efficient with its funding?
Join us at Priestnall School on Wednesday 5th July to consider these and other questions with your fellow colleagues. The event will start with Registration and Food from 5.45pm. The GOVAS AGM will take place from 6.15pm, and the workshop will start at 6.30pm. As always, not only will we be looking to provide the latest advice and tips to help you to get the most from your budgets, but it is also an opportunity to network with fellow governors.
You can register for this event --Here--.
We do not have all your governors details on our files, and some emails we sent just do not get to where they should go, so we would be grateful if you could share this e-mail with them.
Yours,
Stu Foster
GOVAS
Become a GOVAS Management Committee Member - we are a happy and contented bunch, but we could do with a few more friends. We meet three, or four, times a year, usually at the Town Hall. Our main visible event is the conference, but we also meet with council officers once a term and represent governors on a number of committees and we are looking to establish workshops/seminars to complement the LA training programme. To join the management committee, you do not need to have been a governor for over ten years, have a beard, or wear sandals. You do not need to be a Chair of governors, or even aspire to be. We just want governors who are prepared to give up a bit more of their time; to provide a fresh outlook; and to be able to speak up for governors within and outside of Stockport. Please contact us through admin@govas.org.uk
