NORFOLK GOVERNORS' NETWORK

To help schools work more closely together, NGN is considering organising regional Chairs Network meetings - probably in the North, South, East, West and Norwich areas and probably 2 in each area per year.  The idea of these meetings would be for Chairs of Governors from the area to get together and share ideas and best practice as well as simply meet each other and network.

To judge interest and whether such a meeting would be effective we organised a pilot in Norwich in February.  This went very well, with over 30 Norwich schools represented and, so long as we can get the logistics together, we're hoping to organise full meetings in the other four areas in the summer term.  Watch this space!

Fred Corbett, assistant director of Children's Services is retiring and his last day is 16th March. Fred had made an enormous contribution to children's education in Norfolk and everyone at NGN wishes him well.  

NCC have announced the following interim arrangements for covering Fred's responsibilities for the next three months - with Terry Cook, David Orsborne and Gordon Boyd sharing his duties as follows.

• Terry will lead on the Service Improvement Board, termly headteacher meetings, school improvement, the effective Schools Group, academies, short stay school strategy and linkage with the DfE. He will report to me and attend CSLT.
• Gordon Boyd will lead on school cluster development and implementation, the School Organisation and Planning Group, the education lead within the SEN changes, senior leadership for Apprenticeships and NEET and the sponsor for the Transformation Projects previously undertaken by Fred.
• David Orsborne will provide senior leadership for the PDC and take on line management support for the majority of those previously reporting to Terry. He will also support Sarah Spall in relation to the completion of the children's centre recommissioning project.