The report says the government's light-touch governance model "requires high levels of compliance by schools, yet fewer than half of free schools" submitted their required financial returns for 2011-12 on time.
We are dealing with political issues, and that touches on governance, so if those key issues are addressed I think the continent, and we are seeing it right now, is at least progressing.
Yet shareholders should perhaps worry more than they appear to do about the ability of Berkshire's famously light-touch corporate governance to continue its impressive performance, as the business gets ever bigger (now up to over 260,000 employees) and more diverse.
Although the public sessions have not included testimony from any outside directors, the hearings did touch on corporate governance, and the commission has privately interviewed directors, according to Phil Angelides, the commission's chairman.
Teresa Berger, professor of liturgical studies at Yale University's divinity school, said both controversies touched on church governance issues in which the pope has "opened some windows": his stated "zero tolerance" of sexual abuse by priests, and greater openness to the LGBT community.
This is an issue that touches all areas of governance in the UK.
"They don't want us to touch anything that exposes bad governance.
Policy implementation is a complex field and touches on all aspects of governance, management and leadership in the organisation.
Governance should be "light touch and proactive", the NAO says.
Widening post-crash economic injustice and social division, the growing gulf between rich and poor and incompetent, out-of-touch and corrupt national and EU governance have all contributed to the rightwards lurch apparent in Poland, Germany and elsewhere.
