An example term-by-term rhythm for the whole board. Strong safeguarding governance is spread across the year, not crammed into one meeting. Adapt it to your meeting calendar and capture everything in the minutes.
One safeguarding agenda item a year produces a minute. A rhythm across the year produces assurance. The cycle below spreads the board's safeguarding work across three term blocks, five standing items and a short list of things that never stop. It is an example, not a mandate: move items between terms to fit your meeting calendar, keep the standing items on every agenda and capture all of it in the minutes, because the minutes are where the evidence lives.
Where this fits. The cycle holds the rest of the pack together. The planner sets the year's training, the visit record and question bank feed each term's scrutiny and the standing items close the loop at every meeting: plan, train, feed back, minute, assure. See all five artefacts on the pack page.
An example rhythm for the whole board across autumn, spring and summer, with standing items for every meeting. Issued by the School Governance Assurance Framework as part of the free Beyond the Certificate resource pack. Adapt to your board's meeting calendar.
