The second national conference for ‘Employee Governors’, is to be held at Glaziers Hall, London, on Wednesday, 20 January 2010.  The conference is designed specifically for school and college governors who are also employees of major organisations. 

 

This conference is organised by the Employee Governors Network (EGN), established by FEdS Consultancy – a networked community for governors working in major companies, developed in partnership with the National Governors Association, the School Governors’ One Stop Shop and the National Co-ordinators of Governor Services.  The EGN provides a forum for communication and peer support for governors, both within and between companies. It also provides briefings, policy guides and intelligence to enable employee governors to play a more strategic and effective role, a natural extension of FEdS work with its Business Forum.

 

Working in partnership with FEdS Consultancy is HTI and together they want to encourage employees to volunteer as governors and support them in that role as it is thought to be a central part of any corporate responsibility strategy, and brings immense benefit to the company as well as to society.

 

Director of FEdS Consultancy, Brian Stevens said: “The conference will be opened by Bob Wigley, Chairman of the Yell Group PLC , who has been closely involved in the formation of the Education and Employers Task Force.  We are intended through the EGN to give a practical application of much of the governance group within the task force.”

 

The conference will attract over 100 delegates from business, local authorities and support organisations.  Four sessions are to be hosted by experts in the field including Director General for Schools, Department for Children, Schools & Families (DCSF), Jon Coles.  Covering topics such as, ‘The Vision for 21^st Century Schools’, Jon will be considering the vision from the point of view of the school and its governing body.  He will discuss with participants what the vision means and how it can be implemented to improve performance in schools.  He will also talk about what the best schools are doing. What poor performers look like? What financial constraints might mean in practice, and in the context of a changing approach to funding?