Welcome to the National Training Programme (NTP) for New Governors. This programme has been prepared to help governor trainers in local authorities and Diocesan Boards ensure that new governors have the information they need to become effective school governors.

Follow the link below below to access the training-programme workbook for governors. The workbook includes independent-study activities. There is also a toolkit for trainers, which you can access by following the link under 'background' below.

Although both the workbook and the trainers' toolkit were updated in November 2005, the video and CD-Rom which accompany the training programme remain the same and have not been amended in any way. If you would like to order the video or CD-ROM email [email protected].

If you have difficulty opening an attachment, there may be a programme reader incompatibility issue. The following may resolve the issue: When you click on an attachment and are presented with a File Download box, select 'Save this File to Disk' and then 'Open' rather than 'Open this File from its Current Location'. This allows your computer to open the attachment, taking into account the form of Acrobat it was saved in on the website.