Comprehensive Governance Review Service As your Partners in Practice we don’t deliver reports and walk away We are there to support you with implementation of recommendations to the extent you may need it
Evaluating the effectiveness of governance arrangements in any organisation is an essential part of good governance. Annual board effectiveness reviews are required by most governance codes. The Charity Code of Governance, for example, specifically requires boards to complete an external review of their performance once every three years. In the social housing sector, tri-annual external governance reviews are widely recommended as good practice.
This is where we can help. We have substantial combined experience of completing governance reviews, which we have built as consultants with our own clients, and also working as part of the Affordable Housing Consultancy team in Savills.
Governance reviews can consist of various components - board member skills evaluation, board and committee meeting observations, board effectiveness self-assessments, individual board members appraisals, interviews with board and committee members, review of compliance with the adopted code of governance, review of board papers and terms of reference, are only some of them. Although there are elements of each governance review, which must be present to satisfy the criterias of the governance codes and good practice, we work with you to develop a process which will help to address the specific issues faced by your orgaisation and to support the delivery of your strategic goals from a governance perspective. We have an open and supportive line of communication throughout the process, we ensure that our findings and recommendations are clear and specific and that these enable our clients to recognise what you do well and what could be done even better in a realistic time scale.
Once we have completed the evaluation - we are there to support you with implementation of recommendations to the extent you may need it.