39th meeting of the OfS board, 23 May 2024

Agenda and associated papers

1 Chair's welcome

2 Minutes of the meeting of 8 February 2024

3 Chief executive's report

Annex B: OfS communications review

This cannot be published for copyright reasons.  

4 OfS Public Bodies Review

An update on the Public Bodies Review.

Exempt from publication.

5. Strategic goal progress report

Annex A Strategic goal progress

A presentation on our progress towards our strategic goals.  

Exempt from publication. Progress is reported in our annual report.

6 Development of next OfS strategy

An update on the development of the next OfS strategy, following discussion of the OfS’s strategic vision at the board planning event in February.

Exempt from publication: policy in development.

7 Business plan and intervention strategy 2024-25

An overview of the business plan for 2024-25 and the intervention strategy that sits alongside.

Exempt from publication. A summary of the business plan will be published later in the summer.

8 Restricted item

Exempt from publication.

9 OfS communications plan 2024-25

A paper containing a proposed communications plan to take us to the start of the new organisational strategy in early 2025.

Exempt from publication.

10 Board effectiveness review

Results of a survey carried out in December 2023 to seek the views of members on the effectiveness of the OfS board.

Exempt from publication: sensitive information.

11 Risk report

The latest report on the current strategic and principal (high) corporate risks.

Annex A – The detailed register of strategic and principal (high) corporate risks.

Annex B – The draft risk management policy statement 2024, presented to the board for approval.

Exempt from publication: a summary of risk information is published in the OfS annual report.

12 Student panel update

Annex A – A summary of the impact of the student panel in 2023-24

Exempt from publication: a summary is included in the OfS annual report.

13 Report from the Quality Assessment Committee

14 Report from the Provider Risk Committee

A report summarising the February committee meeting.

Exempt from publication due to commercial sensitivities.

15 Report from the Risk and Audit Committee

16 Restricted: Assessing financial sustainability

A restricted paper summarising the actions we take to assess the financial sustainability of individual providers and the changes we have made in response to the increased financial risk in the sector.

Exempt from publication due to commercial sensitivities.

17 Restricted item

18 Restricted item

19 Restricted item