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From RBS to BHS, from Kids Company to Carillion, from Rotherham to Rochdale, from Volkswagen to V-inspired, there is a common yet often unstated theme: an apparent<\/em> failure of governance.<\/p>\n Governance failures arise in a number of ways: negligence, fraud, ill-judged financial decision-making, the wrong skill-mix in the boardroom, a meddlesome board. Sometimes the failures appear<\/em> to be the result of singular acts or \u2018rogue traders\u2019, although this is rarely the full story. Mostly, errors are manifestly multiple and sometimes profoundly tragic, with results ranging from the farce of last year\u2019s Oscar Best Movie mix-up to the still unfolding tragedy of Grenfell Tower.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, there are many examples of high-quality, professional and committed governance that remain locked within sector-specific communities, and therefore largely unacknowledged and unknown.<\/p>\n We want this space – the Transform Governance space – to be open to all who share our concerns about poor governance and our aspirations for great governance. Please respond to the regular postings and follow us on twitter @BetterGovCom<\/a>.<\/p>\n Much of our work, and that of our partners, in recent months has been taken up with building on the #R29<\/strong> campaign, the nature and origins of which we outline below, with the intention of establishing an all-sector Better Governance Commission<\/strong>. We believe that we have much to learn by coming out of our silos and sharing our lessons of great governance, and that genuine thought diversity is likely to grow through these exchanges. Let the discussions begin!<\/p>\n Should you feel that you can support, or if you would like to contribute to, any aspect of our Transform Governance<\/em><\/strong> project, including our all-sector Better Governance Commission<\/em><\/strong> in any way, do not hesitate to get in touch.<\/p>\n Recommendation 29 originates in Tony Breslin\u2019s well-received report, Who Governs Our Schools? Trends, Tensions and Opportunities <\/em><\/strong>(RSA, 2017), and calls for the sharing of knowledge and insights across tradition sector boundaries. It reads:<\/p>\n Agencies across the governance landscape need to work together to establish a cross-sector working group or commission on governance. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n This would enable those in education, the wider public sector, the voluntary and community sector and industry to learn from each other, and might be composed of an alliance of \u201cvoice-of-the-sector\u201d bodies from each field. It might enable us to share learning and build a common core of governance literacy that we can share beyond our boardrooms and across sectors, and it might produce the sort of thought diversity that provides the strongest counter to group think.<\/p>\n Just as Recommendation 29 originates from an RSA commissioned report, in the true spirit of the RSA Fellowship<\/u>, the idea for a campaign to deliver the recommendation, the #R29 campaign, originated in a coffee bar discussion at the RSA between Tony Breslin of Breslin Social Impact, Su Turner of Shaping Governance and Ann Reeder of Frontline Consulting. Su Turner had served on the Expert Group for Tony Breslin\u2019s RSA report and is a long standing colleague of Ann Reeder\u2019s through their shared interest in public sector governance.<\/p>\n The campaign is being delivered through a series of ten sector focused roundtable discussions hosted by a wide range of voice-of-the-sector partners including ICSA, the Institute of Directors, NCVO, the National Governance Association, the Non-Executive Academy and Campbell Tickell. The first, at Parliament in March 2018 was hosted by the Non-Executive Academy and facilitated by Frontline Consulting, who have continued to be key supporters of the programme.<\/p>\n Each roundtable has explored four questions:<\/p>\n The roundtables have stimulated rich discussion – while acknowledging the distinctiveness of governance in each setting, they have strongly endorsed both the belief that there are shared commonalities and the case for an all-sector Better Governance Commission.<\/p>\n Outcomes from the roundtables are beginning to emerge in articles in a variety of influential journals and will be summarized on this site in due course.<\/p>\n Encouraged by the success of the roundtables and the diverse range of blue-chip partners who are already expressing interest in our work, we are securing support (funding, organizational, media and political) to establish an all-sector Better Governance Commission and an associated research programmme during the course of 2019.\u00a0 \u00a0The Commission\u2019s objectives are threefold:<\/p>\n The work on the Commission is being taken forward through the partnership behind the wider Transform Governance<\/em> initiative \u2013 Breslin Social Impact and Permuto Consulting.\n<\/div>\n \n Governance during lockdown: can we go governance-light without going governance-free?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n In the second of his COVID-19 Blogs, Tony Breslin explores the nature of school governance during the lockdown and poses the question \"Can we go Governance-light without going Governance-free?\" He also speculates on how governance, and schooling itself, might change as a result of the virus, and calls on governors to play their part in these changes.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n We need to extend governance literacy beyond the boardroom if we want to build diversity within it.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n In a feature article for the February 2019 issue ICSA journal, Governance and Compliance, Tony Breslin and Cosette Reczek outline the thinking behind their plans for an all-sector Better Governance Commission.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n Governance beyond Silos<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Tony Breslin and Cosette Reczek extend their appeal for participation in an all-sector Better Governance Commission to the voluntary and community sector through a paper in the January 2019 edition of Governance and Leadership. <\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n Sober Breslin raises \u00a310,000 for Macmillan in five years<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Tony Breslin has thanked his many sponsors after completing his fifth successive Go Sober for October for Macmillan Cancer Support, raising \u00a32,003.50 (plus Gift Aid) this year, and a total of approximately \u00a310,000 (including Gift Aid) over the past five years.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n \n The Broken Promise of Autonomy<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n Tony Breslin's debut piece in Schools Week explores the changing nature of school-based headship in multi-school settings and ponders whether the emergence of Trusts and Federations amounts to 'a broken promise of autonomy' for school-based leaders.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n Recommendation 29<\/h2>\n
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