This guidance note provides a number of sample board observation sheets that charity boards may wish to adapt as part of their board evaluation process.

This guidance note is aimed at trustees/directors/governors of 16–19 academy trusts and can be adapted for any size of academy to reflect good practice for each organisation’s needs.

Proper and robust governance is now a baseline expectation of stakeholders and is vital for an organisation to be fit for the future. The need for good governance is well-known, yet sports organisations have exhibited many chronic failures in this regard.

An indispensable guide for those involved in governance within any trust, it aids and supports readers: identify and manage risks; comply with charity and company law; understand sources of income for trusts and their academies and explains the proper application and management of funds.

The revised edition of the Charity Handbook includes a wide range of relevant updates and draws on the broad expertise of a leading team of charity specialists.

Following the consultation last year, the Government published its formal response to Restoring Trust in Audit and Corporate Governance on 31 May.

The Institute says the findings from Baroness Amos’s independent investigation into maternity and neonatal services in England place governance, accountability and culture at the centre of why services have failed and how they must now improve.

Please note that the programme is subject to change.