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Browse through these governance support resources.
They contain answers to the many questions our Advisory and Support Centre advisers receive every day.
Governance support resources
All about board members
- Board relationships and conflict resolution
- Co-opted and appointed board members
- The role of the staff representative
- Welcome to new board members
Board functions
- Before and after school - who is responsible
- Cohort entry consultation
- Community consultation
- Community relationships - between the school board and parent groups
- Board requirements for setting school dates, school closures and varying school hours
- Managing media relationships
- School closure in emergencies - sample notice
- Copyright and Creative Commons
- Difficult behaviour - keeping staff, students and others safe at school
- Gifts and other sensitive expenditure
- Parenting disputes - supporting statements
- Planning and reporting changes for school boards
- Proactive release
- Statement of National Education and Learning Priorities (NELP)
Complaints and information requests
Effective board meetings
- Appointing a presiding member (chair)
- Board presiding member (chair) review template
- Board delegations
- Board meetings
- Board meetings and board resolutions via electronic means
- Public excluded business
- Review of effective governance - board self-assessment checklist
- Suspension - guidelines for imposing conditions
- The role of the board secretary
- The role of the presiding member (chair)
- Board member honorarium and tax
- Board members missing three meetings without prior leave
