At GovernorHub we know how hard governors, trustees, clerks and governance professionals work to provide robust governance for their schools. To help make your lives a little easier we have a rolling schedule of improvements and new features which we'll shout about here so you never miss out!
We love to hear your ideas for new features and ways we can improve too. Send us your feedback (good and bad!) via the blue chat bubble, our product team see every message and use them to inform planning and resource.
Latest releases
October 2026
Improved visit records functionality!
NEW drag and drop functionality making uploading visit reports easier!
Filter your records by academic year so you can keep up to date with the most recent visits
Download visit records to share and evidence visits made.
Like to set up your visits for the year ahead of time?
Any visits in the future with your name on as the visitor now appear in Upcoming events on your home page.
See more in our 'How to record governor visits' help article
September 2026
Updated Safeguarding refresher course. An annual refresher for those who have previously taken Safeguarding for governance - covers safeguarding essentials for governance roles, plus the latest Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) changes
NEW Allergies and anaphylaxis course: Allergy awareness and how to recognise and respond if a pupil has a reaction. The DfE's statutory guidance on allergy safety in schools requires all school staff, including 'regular volunteers', who are present on the school site at the same time as pupils to receive allergy awareness training. If you're frequently in school when pupils are present, you may need to complete this training.
NEW Financial management for trustees course: Build practical working knowledge of financial management.
The Academy Trust Handbook 2026, effective from 1 October 2026, expects trust boards to have "sufficient and effective financial knowledge and expertise to hold the executive to account", including financial training for trustees – particularly finance, and audit and risk committee members (ATH 2026, paragraph 1.31).
This course is particularly useful if you:Sit on your finance committee or audit and risk committee
Are new to a trustee role, or don't come from a finance background
Want more confidence scrutinising your CFO's reports
July 2026
Calendar improvements
Trusts can now add meetings to their local boards' calendars from within their Resources area (add meetings to one board, a few or all at once!)
Bulk Calendar upload (importing meetings from a file)
This AI feature will enable board admins to import multiple meetings (a whole year if you want to) from a file instead of typing them into GovernorHub one by one.
Watch this video to see how to bulk upload meetings to your calendar from a file:
June 2026
Assign training to your board members
This feature enables any admin on your board (or within your trust admin team if you have one) to assign specific training courses to particular people:
ensure 'must do' training messages are received loud and clear
see who’s done what at a glance (and download a report to share)
demonstrate commitment to developing board skills by planning training for the team for the year ahead
April 2026
Visit records now have a share to noticeboard and a copy report link function.
This will help those of you that want to put any visits for discussion at a meeting in the relevant meeting folder. It'll also help you add links to reports in agendas or other documents/emails etc.
Just click on the three dots next to the relevant visit and choose to copy or share.
March 2026
AI Assistant now has a 'search conversations' function
For those of you that are loving having your own AI assistant ready to help you at any moment - you'll be glad to hear that we've added a new search function into the 'Recent conversations' list.
Just type into the search function to find past conversations and don't forget, if you want to copy and paste it to use anywhere else just use the copy button at the end of the response itself.
If you prefer to browse all of your chats in one hit - you can still scroll down the list and the full list will open up.
January 2026
AI Assistant now has a file picker.
The AI Assistant’s file picker has been designed to add vital context and relevance to your work. Alone, our assistant can answer your governance questions with solid advice and guidance based on best practice and legislation - with the file picker it can now understand your individual situation too.
The file picker allows you to choose a file (a word doc, a spreadsheet, a pdf etc.) from your board's Documents area on GovernorHub to help you with your task.
December 2025
NEW Training course for careers link governors and trustees in secondary schools. Help your boards get to grips with requirements, what good monitoring looks like and other key activities for the role.
September 2025
Latest KCSiE linked to the compliance area of your GovernorHub profile - stay compliant by reading and reconfirming your understanding.
New field added in profile area to store Companies House personal codes
From Nov18th it will become statutory for AcademyTrustees, Members and Persons of significant control to verify their identity with Companies House. We've added a field in the personal profile area for users to keep their code safe. Trust governance professionals will be able to see them in situ and evidence them using the Compliance Checks download
New Safeguarding refresher course. An annual refresher for those who have previously taken Safeguarding for governance - covers safeguarding essentials for governance roles, plus the latest Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) changes
August 2025
Admin groups provided to all MATs as an added layer of security. This also provides access to our NEW admin tab (see below).
Admin tab added for MAT governance professionals, enables MAT admins to search and view individual users and groups from across the trust. This release enables you to view and post to multiple noticeboards at once, download multiple board reports at once and pin any group to your left hand side bar!
Admin tab added for Governor support service teams, enables you to search and view individual users and groups from GovernorHub (no need to visit the admin site). Features include the ability to view and post to multiple noticeboards at once, download multiple board reports at once and pin any group in your service to your left hand side bar!
June 2025
NEW AI chat tool specifically tailored for those involved in school governance. Our AI assistant uses the latest generation of large language models (LLMs) and draws on content from our GovernorHub Knowledge and Help centre articles to help you feel confident and equipped to support and challenge your school/academy.
New GovernorHub article links within the Newsfeed give you the Knowledge to Act when news hits.
April 2025
Training course: UK GDPR and data protection for governance. Learn how to keep data that you are handling as a governor safe and secure. We'll help you understand how to avoid data breaches and how to report them if they happen
March 2025
NEW Visit records area: Store reports and evidence visits in GovernorHub
NEW Learning pathway: Monitoring attendance. Get to grips with your role in monitoring attendance. Find out how to support and challenge your school or trust leaders to drive improvement
January 2025
Training course: Cyber Security. Brand new e-learning course that teaches boards how to monitor and remain strategic with an assessment at the end and a certificate to evidence successful completion
November 2024
GovernorHub's new board effectiveness tool supports your self evaluation process by auditing and analysing the skills, experience and effectiveness of your team. Our board effectiveness tool is designed to help you and your board:
Benchmark and monitor what makes a board truly effective
View your own strengths and weaknesses and those of the board as a whole
Identify training and succession planning needs for your board
See who has relevant experience in an instant e.g. confidence in chairing or supporting complaints panels
