Governor support
We provide advice and training for all school governors and publish a variety of publications on educational topics.
All school governors should receive:
- Support and training that is responsive to the changing educational needs of school governors.
- A termly training programme offering an ever increasing number of training sessions throughout the Derbyshire districts.
- A friendly and efficient booking service.
- Clear and precise information.
- Information regarding cluster and customised training sessions.
- A service that continually monitors and evaluates the quality of provisions for school governors.
- A service that observes and promotes equal opportunities.
Contact information
email: governor.support@derbyshire.gov.uk
Tel: 01629 535769
Governor Support Service
Children and Younger Adults Department
County Hall
Matlock
Derbyshire
DE4 3AG
Related documents
The following documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You can download the PDF software for free from the Adobe website (opens in a new window)
The following documents are in Word format. You can download the Word software for free from the Word viewer page (opens in a new window) of the Microsoft website.
- Derbyshire Governor Strategic Briefings − Spring 2012 (2267KB)
- Governor newsletter (426KB)
- Bulletin 26 Spring 2012 (124KB)
- Bulletin 24 Summer 2011 (435KB)
- Bulletin 23 January 2011 (75KB)
- Acronyms (142KB)
- Governor newsletter training guide (37KB)
- Spring training programme 2012 (2623KB)
- Booking on to a course (245KB)
- Chair of Governors bulletin 24 (435KB)
- Clerk's Corner Issue 24 (370KB)
- Governor appointment notification and change in details form (52KB)
- Model code of practice for governing bodies (31KB)
- Parent governor election pack (943KB)
- Staff governor election pack (908KB)
- Guidelines for the election of parent and staff governors (65KB)
- Associate members (37KB)
- Procedures to be followed by a governing body wishing to change school session times (21KB)
- Governing body self evaluation and accompanying notes (122KB)
- Derbyshire School Governors Assocation agreement (318KB)
- Declaration of eligiblity and barred list agreement form (67KB)
- Governor qualifications and disqualification (86KB)
- Declaration of business interest (46KB)
- Bulletin 25 Autumn 2011 (646KB)
- Clerk's Corner Issue 25 (203KB)
- External Complaints Procedure (70KB)
