Everyone involved in education is having to work through significant challenges. Governance advice helps clients with a range of day-to-day issues.

Whether it is the far-reaching implications of GDPR, complex safeguarding issues, or threats to funding and income, our multi-disciplined team has the experience and expertise to assist.

How we can help

• Support governing bodies with issues relating to governance and risk
• Support academies and multi-academy trusts with advice on their memorandum and articles of association, statutory books, company meetings, shareholder resolutions, appointment and removal of governors and governors’ duties (under company and charity law)
• Advise on organisational issues, including trustee/members’ meetings and questions of conflict of interest/duty
• Offer guidance on GDPR and Freedom of Information legislation
• Advise on governance and compliance issues relating to funding
• Advise on collaborative working with other institutions, including academy conversion, re-brokering or collaborative working where conversion is not appropriate.