The school governor's handbook / by 250969 Leonard, Martin

Legislation on school governors' power to appoint educators: friend or foe? by Johan Beckmann, Isak Prinsloo

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Legislation on school governors' power to appoint educators: friend or foe? by Johan Beckmann, Isak Prinsloo

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Conducting school-based health surveys with secondary schools in England: advice and recommendations from school staff, local authority professionals, and wider key stakeholders, a... by Lorna M. Hatch, Emily C. Widnall, Patricia N. Albers, Georgina L. Hopkins, Judi Kidger, Frank de Vocht, Eileen Kaner, Esther M. F. van Sluijs, Hannah Fairbrother, Russell Jago, Rona M. Campbell

“…Methods Participants (n = 26) included members of staff from 11 secondary schools (covering students aged 11–16 years), 5 local authority professionals, and 10 wider key stakeholders in young people's health and well-being (e.g., a school governor, a national government member), based in South West England. …”
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Schools and COVID-19: Reopening Pandora’s box? by Nida Ziauddeen, Kathryn Woods-Townsend, Sonia Saxena, Ruth Gilbert, Nisreen A. Alwan

“…A temporary and limited return for some year groups was trialled from June 2020. Teachers, school governors, the public and doctors have openly challenged the decision.The UK government has struggled to provide enough detailed information to convince the public, teachers and health practitioners, that effective systems for protection, including test, trace and isolate, are in place to prevent and manage outbreaks in schools. …”
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The views of stakeholders on the role of the primary school in preventing childhood obesity: a qualitative systematic review. by Clarke, J, Fletcher, B, Lancashire, E, Pallan, M, Adab, P

“…This meta-synthesis of 18 qualitative studies explores the views of parents, school staff, school governors, school nurses and students on the role of the primary school in preventing childhood obesity. …”

Governance collaboration in schools: the perceptions of principals, parents and educators in rural South Africa by Soane Joyce Mohapi, Stanley Chombo

“…The qualitative study used a focus group discussion with ten (10) school governors from two (2) schools in one rural province of South Africa. …”
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Cross-school ‘close-to-practice’ action research, system leadership and local civic partnership re-engineering an inner-city learning community by Peter Dudley, Martin Pratt, Christine Gilbert, Jon Abbey, Jean Lang, Helen Bruckdorfer

“…This is provided through three short vignettes that place the changes reported in a societal, political and community context, without whose energetic actors (in the form of local political and community leaders and school governors) the local ‘civic governance’ so strongly behind these reforms, would not have existed.…”
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Identifying the top 10 research priorities for the school food system in the UK: a priority setting exercise by Jayne V Woodside, Michelle C McKinley, Désirée Schliemann, Suzanne Spence, Niamh O’Kane, Cheng Choo Chiang, Dilara Olgacher

“…This study aimed to conduct a priority setting exercise to co-produce research priorities in relation to the UK school food system.Methods The James Lind Alliance process informed this priority setting exercise; all key steps engaged a wide range of UK school food stakeholders (including teachers, parents, principals, school governors, policymakers, caterers). An initial online stakeholder survey identified perceived research priorities. …”
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Understanding school food systems to support the development and implementation of food based policies and interventions by Maria Bryant, Wendy Burton, Niamh O’Kane, Jayne V. Woodside, Sara Ahern, Phillip Garnett, Suzanne Spence, Amir Sharif, Harry Rutter, Tim Baker, Charlotte E. L. Evans

“…Methods Eight workshops were conducted with 80 children (from schools from varying locations (region of England/UK; urban/rural), deprivation levels and prioritisation of school food policies)) and 11 workshops were held with 82 adult stakeholders across the UK (principals, teachers, caterers, school governors, parents, and local and voluntary sector organisations) to identify factors that influence food choice in children across a school day and their inter-relationships. …”
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