Jonathan Ellam

It’s a well-worn adage that not all superheroes wear capes but as we come to the end of another unrelenting year for school governors it’s clear you are the unsung heroes who work voluntarily and tirelessly for your schools and are as stretched as any other profession as you grapple with all the challenges schools are faced with.

Whatever your take on the government's Education White Paper there is plenty for governing boards to be thinking about and, looking forward, plenty of strategic thinking to be done.

Before Covid we all knew safeguarding was critically important, ‘post’ Covid it needs to be an unrelenting focus for governors, trustees and boards more than ever before.