Bolton Governance Services provides quality and value for money services for governing and trust boards of authority maintained schools, non-maintained schools and academy trusts. It is a tried and tested service that provides governance expertise to the majority of establishments within the Bolton area. The combined experience of the governance professionals employed by the service means that boards receive first class support in the modern world of education governance. Not only does the service provide effective organisation and administrative support, but more importantly, helps boards understand their role, functions and legal duties through quality assured clerking, training and development.
Governing and trust boards should demand high standards from their governance professionals and this is why Bolton Governance Services has a commitment to provide access to officers that are fully trained in governance law and procedure and keep up to date with changes in the governance and educational landscape.
Copies of the current Service Level Agreement may be downloaded below for both maintained governing boards and academy trust boards. Costings are available on request. Details of the current training programme can be founded via the Governance Training Programme page.
Maintained School Training Options
- Training sessions to be held at various times throughout the day and early evening to allow governors to attend at their convenience.
- Confirmation, via email, of all bookings for training including the facilitation of text reminders one week prior to the session taking place.
- Provide appropriate materials for each attendee to facilitate their learning.
- Invite the link governor for training to briefing sessions without additional charge.
- Apply a reduced non-attendance/cancellation charge in line with the cancellation policy
- Apply a 10% discount for any bespoke development or commissioned training purchased.
- Ensure that training venues are fit for purpose and provide light refreshments at all events and sessions. (A light lunch will be provided for full day sessions)
- Provide notification of training alterations (We will make every effort to notify in advance any change of trainer, where the planned training becomes inappropriate e.g. change in legislation, in an emergency e.g. adverse weather conditions we will attempt to contact delegates to confirm whether the course is running, where there are too few delegates to make the course viable we will give as much notice as possible that the course has been rescheduled.)
- Access to the suite of online training which will provide all governors on the board with unlimited access to the governance e-learning modules. The Governance E-Learning Training Package is brokered through the National Governance Association, at a subsidised rate.
In addition to the courses listed in the programme, the Governance Services Team can design, co-ordinate and deliver commissioned training courses specific to the needs of your board or local cluster of schools. Therefore all courses within the programme are available on a commissioned basis.
Academy & Multi-Academy Trust Training Options
- Training sessions to be held at various times throughout the day and early evening to allow trustees and local governors to attend at their convenience.
- Confirmation, via email, of all bookings for training including the facilitation of text reminders one week prior to the session taking place.
- Provide appropriate materials for each attendee to facilitate their learning with access to all materials and resources via the online Governance Gateway system
- Invite the link trustee / local governor for training to briefing sessions without additional charge.
- Apply a reduced non-attendance / cancellation charge in line with the cancellation policy
- Apply a 10% discount for any bespoke development or commissioned training purchased.
- Ensure that training venues are fit for purpose and provide light refreshments at all events and sessions. (A light lunch will be provided for full day sessions)
- Provide notification of training alterations (We will make every effort to notify in advance any change of trainer, where the planned training becomes inappropriate e.g. change in legislation, in an emergency e.g. adverse weather conditions we will attempt to contact delegates to confirm whether the course is running, where there are too few delegates to make the course viable we will give as much notice as possible that the course has been rescheduled.)
- Access to the suite of online training which will provide all trustees and local governors on the board with unlimited access to the governance e-learning modules. The Governance E-Learning Training Package is brokered through the National Governance Association, at a subsidised rate. In addition, the trust may choose to opt for 1 x Governance Audit and Review and 1 x targeted or development session.
Pay As You Go Training
Through the Academy Bronze Service, trusts can expect access to all available tutor led training session on a pay as you go (charged per session) attendance basis (except for safer recruitment training which is priced separately due to external accreditation).
Service-Level-Agreement-2025-26-Maintained-supporting-information-1.pdf (325.2kb)
