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Q cards


The Governance Consultancy Team, in collaboration with subject specialists, governors and trustees has created Q-cards for boards, providing prompts for questions that boards, or individuals delegated responsibility for specific areas, may wish to use to inform their work.

The Q-cards are provided as a resource for our subscribing schools.

  • Accessibility plan
  • Attendance
  • Behaviour
  • Catch-up premium
  • Children in care
  • Curriculum intent, implementation and impact
  • Data and assessment
  • Disadvantaged pupils
  • Early reading and phonics
  • Early Years Foundation Stage
  • Education recovery
  • Equality
  • Exclusion
  • Finding the right partnership
  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • Governing in the secondary school context
  • Governing in the special school context
  • Headteacher work/life balance and wellbeing
  • Health and safety
  • Members in a multi-academy trust (MAT)
  • Ofsted visits autumn 2025
  • Online safety, filtering and monitoring
  • New to school leadership
  • Parental engagement in learning
  • Pupil premium
  • Pupil voice
  • Remote learning
  • Safeguarding processes and procedures
  • Safeguarding – termly data
  • Schools Financial Value Standard (SFVS) for maintained schools
  • School Resource Management Self-assessment Tool (SRMSAT) for academy schools
  • Staff workload and wellbeing
  • Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
  • Wraparound care.

Subscriber content

In order to view the subscriber pages and download the resources you will need to login to the governance microsite at Devon Education Services. Please contact your clerk, or the Governance Consultancy Team, if you need assistance.


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