External School Board Advisor

How We Assist Your Board

As a legally trained advisor, I provide practical, non-legal professional assistance to support your board's decision making, manage organisational risk, and streamline compliance. You can utilise your advisor hours for:

  • Board Meeting Attendance & Guidance: Attending scheduled board meetings to provide direct, real time advice and governance support exactly when your directors need it on the floor.

  • Paperwork & Submission Reviews: Conducting rigorous audits of your critical documentation, including registration applications, compliance submissions, and official reports, to catch gaps before they are finalised.

  • Registration Cycle & Compliance Readiness: Conducting thorough gap analyses of your evidence submissions, reviewing documentation formats, and ensuring your school is fully prepared for upcoming regulatory reviews.

  • Industrial Relations & Workplace Advice: Providing practical, hands on guidance on educational award interpretation, staff performance frameworks, and workplace compliance.

  • Legislative & Project Guidance: Breaking down complex education acts into clear, actionable briefs for the board and providing governance oversight for major school projects.

Our Transparent Pricing

School Policy Hub offers professional governance, policy, and compliance support at a competitive, transparent rate designed to foster school growth. We provide straightforward pricing with no hidden surprises, ensuring our members receive premium savings on all bespoke work.

  • Non-Member Rate: $80 per hour + GST

  • Member Rate: $65 per hour + GST (Save $15 per hour)

Proactive Due Diligence

To ensure absolute peace of mind for the board, our advisor is fully prepared to complete a Fit and Proper Person Declaration and provide a current Working with Children Check (WWCC). This demonstrates to regulators that the board is exercising thorough due diligence, operating well above and beyond the baseline registration requirements.

To get started contact us at [email protected]

Scope of Engagement & Legal Disclaimer: School Policy Hub provides professional governance, policy, and compliance advisory services based on legal training and industry expertise. This service encompasses operational guidance, document and submission reviews, meeting support, and legislative interpretation to assist school leadership in their decision making. Please note that these services constitute commercial and operational consultancy aligned with the School Education Act 1999 (WA) and do not constitute formal legal advice, legal practice, or create a lawyer client relationship. Where formal legal opinions or litigation representation are required, the school should consult its retained legal counsel. While we apply rigorous industry standards to support the board, School Policy Hub does not control the regulatory assessment processes of the Department of Education and provides no guarantees, explicit or implied, that our advisory services or submission checking will automatically result in a passing school registration, audit, or review outcome. Full details are available in our Terms and Conditions.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes. In fact, most regulatory bodies, including the Department of Education (WA), consider it "best practice" for governing bodies to seek independent professional advice. While the board members themselves are often volunteers, the board as an entity has the authority to engage paid contractors, consultants, and experts to ensure they meet their legal and fiduciary obligations under the School Education Act 1999.

  • A Board Member (Governor/Director) is a formal member of the governing body with voting rights and full fiduciary liability for the school. A Board Advisor is an external professional consultant. As your advisor, I attend meetings and provide expert guidance, but I do not have a vote and do not hold the legal liabilities of a director. This allows me to provide completely objective, independent critique.

  • No professional can offer a 100% guarantee, as final approval rests solely with the Department of Education’s assessors. However, my role is to significantly "de-risk" the process. I conduct rigorous gap analyses and paperwork reviews to ensure your evidence is as robust and compliant as possible before the regulators see it.

  • I provide legislative guidance and industrial relations advice based on my legal training and sector expertise. This includes interpreting awards or explaining how specific sections of the Education Act apply to your policies. However, I do not provide formal legal counsel or represent schools in litigation. If a matter requires a formal legal opinion or court representation, I will advise the board to engage their retained law firm.

  • To ensure we can dedicate undivided professional focus to your school's requirements, all advisory services are calculated and invoiced in standard, 60-minute increments.

    This means that any task whether it is attending a scheduled board meeting on the floor, conducting a specific regulatory review, or auditing a registration submission is rounded up to the nearest hour. This allows us to provide dedicated, high value time to your school’s specific compliance needs without the administrative complexity of minute by minute tracking.

  • Annual Members receive a discount on all professional services including this one. This reduces the hourly rate to providing significant savings for schools with ongoing compliance requirements.

  • Absolutely. Before we here at School Policy Hub start any custom work or services we will provide an estimated number of hours required based on the complexity work.