Leadership and Governance Resources

🔄 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 in line with the Ofsted Framework

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.

🔄 Updated for 2026

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

You'll get:

☑️ SEND Questions for Governors and Trustees – 12 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the SEND link governor and key school staff such as the SENDCo, headteacher and others with responsibility for SEND and inclusion, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps

☑️ Equality and Accessibility Questions for Governors and Trustees – focused questions to help the SEND link governor and those responsible for accessibility and equality evaluate the school's inclusivity for all pupils and staff

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

☑️ SEND Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the SEND and inclusion 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 health and safety link governor effectively takes structure, clarity and the right tools. This pack gives you all three – with three fully editable resources designed to strengthen health and safety governance in your school, whether your link governor is new to role or needs more support to be highly effective.

You'll get:

• ☑️ Health and Safety Questions for Governors and Trustees – 20 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the H&S link governor and key school staff such as the premises manager, site agent, health and safety lead or headteacher, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps
• ☑️ Health and Safety Report to Governors Template – a clear, structured template covering health and safety data and commentary, giving the full governing board the insight they need
• ☑️ Health and Safety Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the H&S 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 staff, pupil and community welfare link governor effectively takes structure, clarity and the right tools. This pack gives you exactly this, with three fully editable resources designed to strengthen wellbeing governance in your school, whether your link governor is new to role or needs more support to be highly effective.

You'll get:

☑️ Staff Workload and Wellbeing Questions for Governors and Trustees – 13 pages of structured questions to support meaningful collaboration between the welfare link governor and key school staff such as the SENDCo, pastoral leader and headteacher, plus a triangulating evidence section and an action plan template to document next steps

☑️ School Wellbeing and Personal Development Report to Governors Template – a clear, structured template covering wellbeing data and commentary, giving the full governing board the insight they need

☑️ Staff, Pupil and Community Welfare Link Governor Roles and Responsibilities – an editable outline of the welfare and wellbeing 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

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.

🔒 Fully aligned to the 2026 Ofsted Inspection Toolkit and Framework and all 2026-2027 statutory guidance

This bundle is perfect for headteachers, trust leaders, governance professionals and SLT members who wish to be consistent in the way they report information to their governing board. The fourteen editable reporting templates will help your governing board to gain a clearer picture in each of the areas, which include reports for:

• attendance
• behaviour
• curriculum
• data protection
• EYFS
• finance
• headteacher's report to governors
• health and safety
• looked-after children
• pupil premium
• annual safeguarding report
• school well-being and personal development
• SEND and inclusion
• subject (can be used multiple times for different subjects)

Each template contains space for data and commentary, allowing governors to build a picture of the school's current position and the reasons behind this.

Regular reports to the relevant governor committees, the full governing board or your local board members allows all of your governors to make more effective strategic decisions because they'll hold a deeper understanding of the school. It can also support governors to share how they hold school leadership to account to ensure compliance, which is a crucial part of the Ofsted leadership and governance judgement and a key feature of an effective governing board.

👉 For support with a specific link governor role, the relevant report to governor template is also available in our individual link governor support packs. These packs also include full audits that can be used in a collaborative manner between schools leaders and governors, plus a role and responsibilities document to support link governors with their specific roles.

🔄 Updated for 2026

Clear roles make for more effective governors. This pack gives you ten fully editable roles and responsibilities templates for different link governor roles so every member of your governing board understands their purpose, their priorities and how to fulfil their responsibilities with a genuinely strategic focus.

You'll get:

☑️ Ten editable link governor roles and responsibilities templates – covering attendance, behaviour, curriculum, finance, GDPR and data protection, health and safety, pupil premium, safeguarding, SEND and staff, pupil and community welfare

☑️ Clarity for every governor – each template sets out the key duties, relevant policies, staff relationships and strategic focus for that role, so governors know exactly what they should be doing and why

☑️ Ready to use or adapt – use as-is or customise to reflect your school's context; templates can also serve as governor role terms of reference documents if needed

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

👉 For support with a specific link governor role, the relevant link governor role and responsibilities template is also available in our individual link governor support packs. These packs also include a full set of link governor questions that can be used in a collaborative manner between schools leaders and governors, plus a reporting to governor template so governors have a better understanding of the school, leading to more effective governance.

This full school budget management pack is perfect for any school leader who holds responsibility for the management of school finances, such as the headteacher, principal, academy head, school business manager (SBM) or another person in a similar role. The pack contains three distinct strands to support you:

• Cost saving toolkits to help you solve common problems when balancing your budget, including how to minimise expenditure and maximise income in different areas
• Financial management skills-based support to help you understand key terminology and concepts linked to budget management and identify where you may need further skill development
• Budget planning support, including ideas for finance governors when it comes to their role in budget planning and a handy budget planning checklist and calendar to help you stay on track throughout the year

This pack is ideal for those who are new to finances and budget management in schools but it can equally be used by experienced school leaders who are seeking further support.

This pack offers you best value for money if you want to get a better grip on your budget, but each strand is also available as a separate purchase should you need to explore a single area of budget management. 👉 School Budget Planning and Cost Saving Toolkit, School Budget Management Skills Bundle, Budget Planning Questions for Governors and Budget Planning Checklist and Calendar.