CPD & Staffing

🔄 Updated for 2026

Effective link governors ask strong questions and this pack gives them the tools to do exactly that. Each set of structured questions supports a different link governor role, giving governors a practical starting point for exploring their area in depth, collaborating meaningfully with school leaders and fulfilling their strategic responsibilities with confidence. Whether you're supporting new governors or strengthening the skills of your board, these resources help shift governors' questions from operational to genuinely strategic.

You'll get:

☑️ Attendance and Behaviour – structured questions to support governors in exploring attendance systems, behaviour culture, policies and practice

☑️ Curriculum, Early Reading and EYFS – questions covering curriculum intent, implementation and impact, early reading and phonics, and EYFS provision

☑️ Safeguarding, SEND and Inclusion – questions across safeguarding, SEND, equality and accessibility, and pupil premium and disadvantaged pupils

☑️ Finance, GDPR and Health and Safety – questions to support governors in evaluating financial management, data protection and H&S compliance

☑️ Staff, Pupil and Community Wellbeing – questions to help governors explore staff workload and wellbeing provision across the school

All templates are fully editable so you can adapt them to reflect your school's context and needs.

👉 To support a specific link governor role, these questions are also available in our individual link governor support packs. These packs include the relevant questions plus a report to governor templates and a role and responsibilities document.

🔄 Updated for 2026

Supporting your curriculum link governor effectively takes structure, clarity and the right tools. This pack gives you a great starting point with six fully editable resources designed to strengthen curriculum governance in your school, whether your link governor is new to role or needs more support to be highly effective.

You'll get:

☑️ Curriculum Intent, Implementation and Impact Questions for Governors and Trustees – 14 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the curriculum link governor and key school staff such as the curriculum lead, headteacher or SLT, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps

☑️ EYFS Questions for Governors and Trustees – focused questions to help the curriculum governor and early years lead build a deeper understanding of the school's current early years foundation stage strengths and areas for development

☑️ Early Reading and Phonics Questions for Governors and Trustees – structured questions to evaluate the school's current position on early reading and phonics, which can be used alongside the EYFS questions for a fuller picture

☑️ Curriculum, Subject and EYFS Reports to Governors Template – three clear, structured templates covering the reporting on the full curriculum, individuals subjects (reusable across multiple subjects) and the EYFS, giving the full governing board the insight they need

☑️ Curriculum Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the curriculum governor's key responsibilities, ideal for onboarding a new governor or bringing clarity to an existing role

All resources are fully editable so you can adapt them to reflect your school's context and needs.

Looking to recruit a new member of support staff, such as a teaching assistant, HLTA, learning mentor or similar? If you’re considering what TA interview questions you might ask to a prospective learning support assistant or what tasks might best work for your setting, this Teaching Assistant Interview Pack can support you create a successful interview day and recruit a new member of your support staff team.

Rising costs and reduced funding are huge challenges that schools face when managing their budgets. This supportive bundle, designed for headteachers, principals and school business managers, gives you four cost saving toolkits that you can utilise to explore how to maximise income coming into your school as well as reduce unnecessary costs. Each toolkit covers a key pain point in school budget management: low pupils numbers, high staffing costs, managing SEND and linked budgetary costs, and planning an effective and efficient school budget. These provide ideas and reflective questions to work through in order to identify cost-saving measures, supporting your thought process when managing and balancing your entire school budget.

For greatest effect, purchase the full pack which contains all four toolkits but each toolkit is available individually too. 👇

👉 Looking for more budget support? These templates are also available in the full School Budget Management Pack, which can also help you to plan your budget and evaluate your financial management understanding in order to develop your skills and knowledge.

🔄 Updated for 2026

Supporting your pupil premium link governor effectively takes structure, clarity and the right tools. This pack gives you all of this with four fully editable resources designed to strengthen pupil premium governance in your school, whether your link governor is new to role or needs more support to be highly effective.

You'll get:

☑️ Pupil Premium and Disadvantaged Pupils Questions for Governors and Trustees – 15 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the pupil premium link governor and key school staff such as the PP lead, headteacher or finance staff with responsibility for the pupil premium grant, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps

☑️ Pupil Premium Report to Governors Template – a clear, structured template covering pupil premium and disadvantaged pupil data and commentary, giving the full governing board the insight they need

☑️ Looked After Children and Previously Looked After Children Report to Governors Template – supports the headteacher, designated teacher for looked after children and the link governor to report key information to the full governing board

☑️ Pupil Premium Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the PP governor's key responsibilities, ideal for onboarding a new governor or bringing clarity to an existing role

All resources are fully editable so you can adapt them to reflect your school's context and needs.

🔄 Updated for 2026

Supporting your attendance link governor effectively takes structure, clarity and the right tools. This pack gives you all three – with three fully editable resources designed to strengthen attendance governance in your school, whether your link governor is new to role or needs more support to be highly effective.

You'll get:

☑️ Attendance Questions for Governors and Trustees – 12 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the attendance link governor and key school staff, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps

☑️ Attendance Report to Governors Template – a clear, structured template covering attendance data and commentary, giving the full governing board the insight they need

☑️ Attendance Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the attendance governor's key responsibilities, ideal for onboarding a new governor or bringing clarity to an existing role

All resources are fully editable so you can adapt them to reflect your school's context and needs.

Looking to recruit a new attendance champion or attendance co-ordinator? If you’re wondering what tasks to set and what interview questions to ask a prospective attendance lead to recruit the right candidate for your school, this Attendance Champion Interview Pack can support you throughout the entire process, from advertising to employment.