Welcome to the Essex Clerks’ Association Website

 UPDATE JUNE 2026

Please see Meetings and Events page for details of our next virtual clerk update taking place. A change to the booking system is now in place so to reserve your place use the new booking schedule which will be availble soon for the next academic year. For information the first clerk’s briefing will be on 9th September 2026 at 5pm online.

We have recently sent out a newsletter to all clerks we have contact details for. This can be downloaded below and if you did not reeive it but wish to be added to our mailing list please contact us via membership.

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Thank you to everyone who attended our networking event on 16th June 2026. The next networking event will hopefully be held in June 2027 (date to be announced). 

Pam Langmead was our speaker for the day and spoke about The Clerk’s role in the new Ofsted framework. Please see meeting and events page for more details about what Pam Langmead covered.

The role of the Clerk to the Governing Body of a school or an academy is a unique and important one, and clerks need high quality support and advice in order to carry out their jobs effectively. We have sourced a document that is freely available on the Internet that might be useful for clerks. NAGAS-Clerking-Handbook-2024.

We are delighted to be able to provide information for training from Pam Langmead covering various different topics. Please see the document Pam Langmead termly briefing dates for further details. These sessions are primarly aimed at governors but they may be of interest to you and you can pass on the details to your governors.

The Essex Clerks’ Association is run by volunteers and financed by subscriptions from schools and/or clerks across Essex and by occasional donations from professional organisations.  We have now been supporting clerks across the county for many years and we hope that, in some small way, we have helped – in particular, in this time of great change for both education and governance.

Each year we send out a notice to schools asking for a small subscription fee of £15.  This is also payable directly to our Membership Officer

In return for this subscription you will help to support us in offering the following to Essex clerks:-

• Access to the dedicated website and a facility to ask questions
• The opportunity to attend termly meetings to share good practice and meet and network with other clerks.
• All attendance at briefings is free and open to any clerk in Essex – briefings are an opportunity for clerks to get up to date with the latest information, to discuss issues and concerns and to network – to book please use the new schedule (a link will be added here soon).

More information about the Essex Clerks’ Association and membership can be found in the About ECA section of our site.

Please do not hesitate to contact me, Marion Myers, the ECA Chair, or any of our Executive Committee – between us with have years of experience and we will do as much as we can to help. For any clerking questions please contact Angela Fuller,  ECA Communications Officer, who will try to assist you.

The documents from the Summer Term’s virtual Clerks’ Briefings can be found under Meetings for all Clerks

Briefings are held near the beginning of each term and start at 5pm for two hours – we would love to be able to offer clerks a cup of tea and cake or biscuits but the meetings are virtual as they seem to be better for clerks!