For clerks
You run the governance term. The desk keeps up with you.
SGAF is the Governance Operating System for UK schools and academy trusts. As clerk, that means Smart Clerk Desk opening to a first-person brief on where the term stands, meeting templates already mapped to the framework with the right statutory item prompted for the term, and reminders that chase a delegated check instead of you.
Membership from £229 per school per year.
Your term with SGAF
A clerk's year, mapped out
Three points in the year where the desk, the agenda and the reminders do the chasing instead of you.
Every morning
The brief already written
The desk opens with a first-person line on where things stand, plus day-one facts pulled from public records such as your last Ofsted rating and the governor register, before you have typed anything. Anything waiting on you this week sits at the top, and anything that has quietly gone untouched for too long is flagged rather than left to slip.
Every meeting
An agenda that already knows the term
Meeting templates, from the full governing board to the panels that often run without a professional clerk in the room, carry their own standing items with the statutory ones flagged for the right term. Download the agenda as Word or copy items straight into the papers you already use, then mark the meeting held as a separate, deliberate step from preparing it.
Every deadline
Nothing chased from memory
A check delegated to a governor or staff member carries its own deadline, and reminders chase it rather than you. A live DfE Policy Radar sits on the desk so a statutory update never arrives as a surprise, and a quiet flag appears the moment something, such as a stalled Quality Standard, has sat untouched too long.
A first-person brief built from what your school already has on file
Meeting templates mapped to the framework, with statutory items flagged for the right term
Every delegated check carries its own deadline and reminder
Built by a governance practitioner, not a software company
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