{"id":15366,"date":"2024-02-06T08:18:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T08:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15366"},"modified":"2024-02-06T17:57:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T17:57:08","slug":"blogathon-04-24-alrite-guvnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=15366","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 06\/24: Alrite Guvnor?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In my continuous quest to find even less time in which to do the things I need to do, I have assumed an additional role. I have joined the local secondary school as a parent governor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a slow start (it took ages for my ordinary DBS check to come through which is bonkers, I already have an Enhanced DBS and a live <strong>REDACTED <\/strong>at a level higher than our Prime Minister. Isn&#8217;t it weird that you can&#8217;t even tell people that you have a <strong>REDACTED <\/strong>because to do so would, in itself, contravene the Official Secrets Act? Anyway. Governor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday I went to an evening of training provided by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nga.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Governance Association<\/a>. It was, in itself, an education. The NGA takes quite a &#8216;hands on&#8217; position and expects school governors to be all over governance, challenging and querying, in a supportive way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s early days of this governing role. I&#8217;ve got a lot to learn, but I think I&#8217;m in for a very interesting time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my continuous quest to find even less time in which to do the things I need to do, I have assumed an additional role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}