AGBIS/BSA Box Set – Crisis and serious case management. Expectations on governors

• Date: July 02, 2025
• Time: 16:00 – 18:00
• Cost: BSA/AGBIS Full Member Rate: £135, Non-Member Rate: £270, BSA Full Member Box Set Rate: £850
• Audience: School Governors
• Platform: Zoom (online) – Seminar

Course outline:

This seminar, led by Richard Harman, CEO, AGBIS will look at serious cases and crises in schools from the perspective of governance. It will cover the nature of a ‘typical’ school crisis including recent patterns and trends. We will then look at how good planning can help prepare for when a crisis occurs and how best to respond and work with senior leadership to navigate a crisis successfully.

Training topics will include:

• Overview of some common issues occurring in schools, particularly in recent years.
• Planning for crises.
• Appropriate questioning for senior leadership when a crisis occurs.
• Managing boundaries to maintain the governor’s strategic role.
• Supporting senior leadership during a crisis.
• Further reporting – who, and how to report.

Learning outcomes

• Know how to plan for a school crisis
• Be able to respond appropriately when a crisis occurs
• Understand how to work collaboratively with the senior leadership team when a crisis occurs.

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Speaker:

Richard Harman, Chief Executive, AGBIS

Richard Harman was educated at The King’s School, Worcester, followed by Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English.  Having spent two years working for an academic publisher, he decided his real vocation was in teaching.  After five years at Marlborough College teaching English and Drama, during which time he also completed his PGCE at Exeter University, he spent 12 years at Eastbourne College.  Progressing from Head of English to Housemaster of a Sixth Form girls’ house to member of the Senior Management Team, he then became Headmaster of Aldenham in September 2000 and thence to Uppingham in 2006. After a decade leading Uppingham and 32 years overall in teaching, he embarked on a third career as Chief Executive of AGBIS. Richard is much enjoying the challenges at AGBIS, having been Chairman of the Boarding Schools’ Association for 2011-12 and Chairman of HMC for 2014-15.