The Business Centre, 758 Great Cambridge Road, Enfield, EN1 3GN
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Welcome to Clerks Associates UK
Clerks Associates UK is the leading provider for all your needs for independent management of staffing, personnel, HR, Judicial Hearings, Reviews, Meetings and Appeals for over twenty years.
Our core business is to manage the entire Hearing, Review, Exclusions and Appeals process on behalf of your organisation from start to finish.
Our holistic and professional approach result in providing a seamless service of professionals to ensure the whole process runs efficiently. We specialise in bespoke tailor-made .
We Train, Source and co ordinate your meetings, hearings and reviews with:
• INDEPENDENT Professional Clerks
• INDEPENDENT Panel members including Chairs
• INDEPENDENT Investigations and findings report with recommendations
• Remote PA, Office and Administration assistants
We offer you bespoke services for
• Professional Clerking for all your Hearings, Reviews and Appeals
• Undertake Judicial Hearings and Reviews
• HR Matters: staff disciplinaries, sickness reviews, misconduct hearings, customer complaints, grievances and Pay reviews
• Independent investigators and Findings report with recommended remedies
• Distributing relevant papers, minutes, communication and decision letters
• Remote PA/Office/Administration services
Additionally, we provide
• School Admissions and Appeals
• School Exclusion Reviews
• Governor Services
• SEN Expert Reports
• Training and Workshops on Judicial Panel Members and Professional Clerks
• Accreditation for Professional Clerking and Panel Members
• Advice co-ordination for Schools Admission Arrangements
Our Training is recognised by ‘The CPD Standards Office‘
Our services and training is tailor-made to suit individual needs of your organisation.
Our team imbibe the 7 principles of Public life: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty & Leadership. We are an Equal Opportunities Employer and encourage diversity and inclusion to deliver the highest of services.
Our holistic approach provides a seamless service of trained, dedicated experienced professionals to ensure the whole process runs smoothly. You can also get professional advice from our qualified personnel including School Admissions Officer.
With over twenty years’ experience, we stand out because:
• We understand what needs to be done to deliver our services successfully.
• Our fees are competitive
• We have the right infrastructure and staffing resources to meet your requirements
• Customer satisfaction is at the heart of what we do as we believe this to be one of the fundamental basis of our success.
All Hearings, Appeals, Disciplinaries, Meetings, Grievances, Misconduct and Reviews, HR, Admissions and Exclusions
We Provide and source Professional Clerks, Chairs and Panel Members including PA and Office Administration Service.
By working closely with you we can advise you on your hearing arrangements, procedures and preparation of your case. Our full administrative services include:
• Document management
• Communicating with appellants/clients/staff
• Appointment of fully trained independent panellists
• Professional Clerking and Minute taking
• Pool of fully trained independent Panel Members and Chairs
• Producing and distributing decision letters
• Compliance with statutory guidance
• Advice on statutory regulations
Undertake Independent Investigations
• To undertake Independent Investigations, provide a report of findings and recommendations
• Our investigators are independent, impartial and Professional
Schools Admissions and School Exclusion Reviews
Our full Admissions and Exclusions administrative services include the appointment of all independent professional clerks and panellists for Hearings, appeals and reviews, writing to appellants, copying and distributing all relevant materials, attending, clerking the hearing and preparation of decision letters. By fully managing your admissions, hearing appeals and review process, we will enable you to spend more time on key educational business e.g. teaching, curriculum management and keeping up to date records for OFSTED inspection.
• Document management
• Communicating with appellants
• Appointment of fully trained independent panellists
• Clerking
• Pool of fully trained panellists
• Pool of fully qualified SEN experts
• Communication with appellants
• Producing and distributing decision letters
• Compliance with statutory guidance
• Advice on statutory regulations
Governor Services
Our clerking service is provided to a variety of education establishments including Academies, Maintained Schools, Voluntary-Aided Schools (secondary and primary), MATs and UTCs.
We provide services for school governors and offer two levels of clerking service.
Basic service: Provides a clerk who will attend three full governing body meetings a year
Full service: Attend all governing body meetings throughout the year
Whether you need the basic or full service, our clerks are trained to assist governing bodies as follows:
• Prepare draft agendas for approval by the Chair.
• Distribute all paperwork within specified timescale.
• Issue agendas and reports to the governors, the local authority and to the school improvement partners.
• Take minutes of the meetings and provide a draft copy of the minutes for approval as appropriate and circulate the approved minutes to the governing body.
• Maintain accurate records of attendance, reporting to governors, the local authority or Diocese as required.
• Assist with any necessary action in collaboration with the chair, as appropriate, on the appointment and or removal of governors.
Our clerks have a background in education and business, including education charities and as company secretaries.
Our clerks will provide procedural advice on governance matters as appropriate.
Remote PA, Office and Administration Resources
• Prepare draft agendas for approval by the Chair.
• Distribute all paperwork within specified timescale.
• Issue agendas and reports
• Take minutes of the meetings and provide a draft copy of the minutes for approval as appropriate and circulate the approved minutes
• Maintain accurate records of attendance as required
• Assist with any necessary action in collaboration with the chair, as appropriate
• All administration tasks
Presenting Your Case
Clerks Associates UK recognises the time consuming and cost implications to organisations for Hearings, admission authorities in presenting their case at reviews and appeals.
A member of our team of trained experienced consultants will be assigned to work closely with you. We will visit your school, liaise with Headteachers and Admission Officers pulling together the school’s case and presenting it on your behalf to the parents and independent appeals panel.
You can be confident in the knowledge that your case will be presented professionally, thus enabling you to spend more time on key educational business e.g. teaching and raising educational achievement, curriculum management, preparing for the new OFSTED framework and inspection.
‘The Admission authority arranging the appeal should provide a presenting officer who must present their decision not to admit the child as clearly as possible and giving all the relevant information’ (DfE School Admission Appeals Code).
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