NCOGS report
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Transcript of NCOGS report
NCOGS report
Looking back
Looking ahead
Who are we?
• David Marriott Chair• Linda Lissimore SECOGS• Phil Hand WMCOGS• Martin Pounce ERCOGS• Sue Pagliaro Treasurer Y&HCOGS• Bridget Sinclair VC SWCOGS• Barry Piercy Governorth• Andy Kent NWCOGS• Ann Foster LCOGS• Brenda Steel NSIG
COGS - a joined up organisation
NCOGS and NSIG
NCOGS
NCOGS - the national committee - is the body that represents the eight regional networks for co-ordinators of Governor Services in England. It exists in order to:
• influence and initiate national policy associated with governance issues
• identify common themes and issues emerging from the regions and use these to inform national priorities
• represent the regions in discussions with national agencies ensuring that the views of the regions are effectively reported
• communicate the outcomes of meetings with national agencies to the regions in a timely and appropriate manner
NSIG
• NSIG – the National Service Improvement Group – is accountable to NCOGS and exists in order to:
• collate information to support the continuous improvement of local authority Governor Services
• encourage and support the professional development of individual co-ordinators of Governor Services and other governance professionals working in local authorities.
• disseminate good practice in training, development of materials and operational practice of Governor Services, including advice and guidance on commissioning and collaborative arrangements
Strategic plan
NCOGS
Focus
Represent regional groups and influence national policy on governance
Activity 1
• Develop an effective and influential relationship with NGA
Activity 2
• Improve the flow of relevant information from NCOGS to regional groups and vice versa
NSIG
Focus
Support the development of COGs and their teams in order to strengthen school governance
Activity 1: Strengthen chairing
Activity 2: Strengthen clerking
Activity 3: Strengthen partnerships
Activity 4: Strengthen COGS
Activity 5: Strengthen professional challenge
Activity 6: Strengthen recruitment
Activity 7: Strengthen governance in academies and independent schools
Activity 8: Publish the manifesto and ensure continued development of its key components
NCOGS report
Key points:• Significant changes to membership• Reshaped plan and priorities• NGA our most important partner• Influencing national policy• National reports and recommendations• BTECs
Emerging issues
• Conference 2011• Data• COGS under threat –
responding positively and creativelyLeaders not victims
What you told us
• You have been through a lot of change recently and expect more to come
• Most striking is the high proportion of you whose responsibilities have increased and those teams which have been relocated – not necessarily a negative development but undoubtedly disruptive
• You expect more change – more responsibility, more reductions to team membership and relocation
• 27% of you are likely to leave your post in the next 3 years
• You tell us many interesting stories of complex and stressful experiences - and some accounts of more positive changes – but these are in a minority
Looking ahead
• Comprehensive Spending Review (20 Oct)
• Education White Paper (Nov)
A Marxist analysis
• Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies
The Canadian solution
• Is this a core service?
• Does the LA need to provide this service?
• Who else could provide this service?
• How can we provide this service better?
• Can we afford this service?
Core service?
• Governance is enshrined in law as a key guarantor of accountability within a democratic state education system
• Volunteers need training, advice and support to be effective
• LAs are obliged to ensure that governors have access to training free to the individual governor
Must LA provide?
• No – commissioners, not providers
• Services must be made available to governors
• Other providers – threat or opportunity?
Who else?
• Cross-border LA service
• Independents
• Dioceses
• Not-for-profit education companies
• For-profit companies
• National bodies
• New entrants to the market
A better service?
• Doing more with less
• Freedom from corporate restrictions
• Outcomes of this conference
• Use of data for improvement
• Develop new services, new and better ways of working
• Sell to a wider, more disparate market
Affordable?
Governors• pressures on school
budgets• priority of own needs• economies of scale –
collaboration?
LAs• pressures on LA
budgets• LA priorities• subscription element
vs central funding
How can NCOGS best support you?
• influence and initiate national policy associated with governance issues
• identify common themes and issues emerging from the regions and use these to inform national priorities
• represent the regions in discussions with national agencies ensuring that the views of the regions are effectively reported
• communicate the outcomes of meetings with national agencies to the regions in a timely and appropriate manner
• collate information to support the continuous improvement of local authority Governor Services
• encourage and support the professional development of individual co-ordinators of Governor Services and other governance professionals working in local authorities.
• disseminate good practice in training, development of materials and operational practice of Governor Services, including advice and guidance on commissioning and collaborative arrangements
What should be on NCOGS’ agenda?
• Develop an effective and influential relationship with NGA
• Improve the flow of relevant information from NCOGS to regional groups and vice versa
• Strengthen chairing• Strengthen clerking• Strengthen partnerships
• Strengthen COGS• Strengthen professional
challenge• Strengthen recruitment• Strengthen governance
in academies and independent schools
• Publish the manifesto and ensure continued development of its key components
NCOGS – fit for purpose?
• A more mixed economy• New: providers; partners; needs and
demands; ways of offering services• Budget pressures on conference and
NCOGS: value for money; expectations• Stick to the knitting or throw open the
doors?Regional and national decision
More to come...
• Enjoy days 2 and 3
• Share your views with NCOGS
• Influence my “Strengthening governance” presentation tomorrow