ABSTRACT
Some local education authorities (LEAs) do care very much about school links with home and community, but only a minority - all honour to these have positive polices to ensure that these links are strengthened throughout the area. In consulting governors about general matters, it is surely right that LEAs should interpret widely the nature of governors' interest as a vital middle tier of decision-making. A minority of LEAs involved themselves in training programmes for governors before the 1986 Act, and a handful had very good arrangements. The Taylor Committee recommended that all LEAs should be required to ensure the provision of training and all governors required to undertake it as practicable. In the middle many LEAs will be organising a programme of evening lectures, either alone or in association with a college of some kind, or providing a single Saturday training conference with some group work.
