The Ministry of Education (the Ministry) is responsible for leading the public education sector to ensure that the education system works for all. Within the sector, each state and state-integrated school is governed by a board of trustees (board). There are about 2469 boards and about 18,500 trustees.
We examined the effectiveness of the Ministry's monitoring of, and support for, boards in their governance role. This included reviewing the Ministry's systems for monitoring boards and identifying boards that may be at risk of poor performance, its systems for providing support, the types of support available, and its systems for providing general training for all trustees.