As part of their strategic role, Governors may be required to sit on a number of formal Governor Panels, including ones that consider pupil exclusions.
Best practice recommends that at least one of the panel participants has attended up to date training in order to ensure both an efficient panel process and that Governors are able to make an effective, strategic contribution to the panel’s decision making.
This course is for…
•governors with no previous training in exclusions or of reviewing a head teacher’s
decision to exclude a child;
•governors with some experience of the exclusion process but who need to refresh and update their knowledge;
•senior school leaders and pastoral managers who want an insight into the role of
the governing board in exclusions and thus better know how to prepare an exclusion report.
This course is non-chargeable for those schools with an annual Croydon Education Partnership Governance training contract.
Led by an experienced school exclusions expert. The course covers:
•national and local guidance on exclusions;
•types of exclusion and where it might be appropriate to exclude and where it
wouldn’t;
•key points for governors to consider when reviewing a head teacher’s decision to
exclude;
•the role of the Independent Review Panel;
•the standard of proof to be applied in cases of school exclusion;
•how exclusions should be notified;
•the importance of the school’s behaviour policy;
•the governors’ duty to interrogate their school’s data in relation to exclusion and
•pupil movement and to review exclusions in different circumstances;
•how to review evidence and conduct an exclusion hearing;
•special considerations in complex cases;
•how to reach a decision when reviewing an exclusion;
•how to notify the outcome of an exclusion hearing.
To Book: Please log in to / using your email address and previously provided password. A place must be booked beforehand in order to be able to attend the training session. Those delegates who have booked a place by 5pm on the day before the session will receive, via an email, a Microsoft Teams meeting link which will be needed to join the session. To ensure the security of the virtual meeting, Clerks who have not booked and not been sent the link will not be allowed to join the training session. All courses should be booked via our portal. Click ‘Book Now’ to log in and secure your place. If you do not have a user account for our portal please contact educationgovernance@croydon.gov.uk with the completed new user request form (found below) or call 020 8241 5486. For those Governors whose schools have purchased a training contract with CEP Governance, attendance at these sessions will be at no additional charge; Governors whose school have not purchased a CEP Governance training contract are warmly welcome to attend our virtual sessions for a fee of £125 per delegate per session.
For a quotation tailored to your requirements, please contact EducationGovernance@croydon.gov.uk
