The Independent School Governor’s Handbook

This comprehensive, best-selling book contains all the latest legislation, guidance and best practice, and has a special focus on public benefit.

More than 3,300 copies have been sold so far; one in three independent schools owns at least one copy.

Price includes packing and posting.

Prices

Single copy £9.99 10 copies £75.00 15 copies £100.00 20 copies £120.00

Governing body subscriptions to Funding for Independent Schools magazine

Help your governors to provide you with greater strategic and financial input to make your school stronger. For only £95 for copies per term.

Just add £7 per additional governor.    

Price includes packing and posting.

Prices

10 copies per term per year £95.00 Additional governor £7.00

A Short Guide to Auditing Teaching Staff Workloads by David and Helen Belchamber

How independent schools can assess whether they are getting best value from one of their biggest cost centres. This detailed report shows how to use benchmarking to achieve this goal, and includes case histories.

"As a governor of an HMC school, this will be immensely helpful in better informing the governors when they decide on staffing costs as part of the annual budget-setting round." Clive Barnett (former HMI, head of Bishop Wordsworth's School); "Excellent." David Sewell, partner, haysmacintyre

Single copy (PDF): £100 

The haysmacintyre Independent Schools Management Survey

This report analyses school data for the financial year 2009-2010 and benchmarks various costs throughout aspects of the management of independent schools.

Seven different types of schools are compared to enable schools to assess their relative success in their own operations.

Single copy: (£25)