BoardMet.
Professional governance for schools

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First meeting free → See what your board receives No obligation. The minutes are yours to retain.
NGA Aligned
Enhanced DBS
KCSIE 2025
GovernorHub Certified
ICO Registered
Professionally Insured
Assurance

What a single accountable professional ensures.

Every meeting, fully run

Papers out beforehand, minutes back within the week. And if your professional is away, a colleague who knows your school steps in.

✓ All meeting admin, covered
Duties stay on track

Twelve statutory obligations sit on a rolling calendar. Each is flagged before it falls due, and tracked until it is complete.

✓ 12 statutory duties monitored
Panels are handled correctly

Exclusions, grievances and disciplinaries are clerked to procedure by someone who has run them before.

✓ Run by an experienced specialist
What your board receives

Four disciplines, one named professional.

Not a clerk who attends and leaves. One governance professional, embedded in your school: running every meeting, tracking every duty, preparing your governors, and there between terms.

01Meeting governance

Every meeting, properly conducted

  • ·The meetings you need, across FGB & committees
  • ·Agenda co-developed seven days prior
  • ·Draft minutes within five working days
  • ·GovernorHub fully managed
02Compliance monitoring

Nothing overlooked

  • ·Statutory policy review calendar
  • ·Termly Ofsted-readiness audit
  • ·KCSIE update briefings
  • ·DBS / single central record monitoring
03Strategic advisory

Governors who arrive prepared

  • ·Termly data & performance briefings
  • ·Budget scrutiny support
  • ·Headteacher performance coordination
  • ·Governor training needs analysis
04Crisis & panels

Support when matters cannot wait

  • ·Exclusion panel clerking
  • ·Complaints procedure management
  • ·Staff disciplinary & capability
  • ·Emergency advice line
What you see each term
Your statutory duties, on a single tracker.

Every obligation has a status and a date. You always know what is in hand, what is due, and what needs the board's attention.

Compliance · Autumn term12 duties tracked
Safeguarding policy reviewOn track
Single central record auditDue · 14 days
Pupil premium statementDrafted
Pay policy reviewFlagged
Your year with BoardMet

A planned cycle, term by term.

One plan, set in autumn and run to the year-end. The work gets done in good time, never when it becomes urgent.

Term 01 Sep–Dec
Autumn
Setting the year in motion
·Annual cycle of business set; FGB and committee dates confirmed
·Headteacher performance panel convened
·Safeguarding & SCR review against KCSIE
Term 02 Jan–Apr
Spring
Scrutiny and challenge
·Budget scrutiny & three-year plan support
·Mid-year data briefing & challenge prep
·Statutory policy reviews on schedule
Term 03 Apr–Jul
Summer
Inspection-ready, looking ahead
·Ofsted-readiness audit & evidence pack
·Skills audit & governor recruitment plan
·Year-end review & next cycle drafted
Three ways to resource your governance

The same requirement, three very different services.

Your school already funds governance support. The question is what that funding provides.

LA Traded Service
£3k–£4.5k / year for 6
Typically £8k–£10k for 12 meetings
  • ✓Low cost per meeting
  • ✕Different clerk each time
  • ✕Minutes in 2–4 weeks
  • ✕No between-meeting advisory
  • ✕No compliance monitoring
  • ✕No Ofsted preparation
  • ✕No GovernorHub management
Employee Clerk
£14,000 / year p/t
+ NI, pension, holiday, recruitment, cover
  • ✓Knows the school
  • ✕You recruit, train, manage
  • ✕Absence cover is yours
  • ✕One person's knowledge
  • ✕No compliance system
  • ✕No strategic advisory
  • ✕No Ofsted framework
Recommended
BoardMet
From £3,750 / year
Everything included. No on-costs.
  • ✓Named professional
  • ✓6 meetings clerked
  • ✓Minutes within 5 working days
  • ✓Cover built in
  • ✓Year-round advisory
  • ✓Statutory compliance monitoring
  • ✓GovernorHub fully managed
  • ✓Termly Ofsted-readiness reviews
  • ✓Data briefings & challenge prep
Arrange your first meeting →

One school, one Service Level Agreement, agreed once a year. It covers the meetings you need, the support around them, and the cover when you need it.

The Governance Assistant

Ask any question of school governance procedure.

We are not an artificial-intelligence company. We built a single tool, grounded in the law and guidance we know best, and provide it without charge.

For the clerks, headteachers and governors who require procedural certainty.

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Free · No obligation

Your first board meeting, at no cost.

We run your first full board meeting at no cost, with no commitment. Appoint us, and it becomes the first meeting of your year. Decline, and nothing is owed. The minutes are yours either way.

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