LAAT Local Governance - Academy Committee

LAAT Local Governance - Academy Committee

 

Following a Trust-wide consultation in which proposals were put forward to change the way local governance operates within LAAT, a single model of governance was brought into effect from the 1st September 2022

 

Brown's C of E Primary School now operates it governance as an Academy Committee.

 

The Scheme of Delegation allows the Academy Committee to:

  • help the Board of Directors fulfil its core functions by:
    • Helping shape a vision for the school appropriate to it foundation
    • promoting the academies place in its community
    • helping the Board of Directors have the understanding it needs to improve outcomes for all pupils
    • helping the Board of Directors have the understanding it needs to hold the CEO to account.
  • help the CEO and school leader fulfil their roles by:
    • supporting and challenging the school's senior leader to improve certain aspects of the academy
    • providing external input to processes
    • helping the School's senior leader to understand the local community, including commerce and industry
    • building links with the wider local community including parents
  • looks at the school through the lens of the child:
    • seeking to answer on behalf of the board and executive: "what it is like to attend this School?"

 

In areas of finance and school standards, the Academy Committee will be aware of the position of the school through the QA reports (6 per year), information from the Headteacher, Signatures of Risk documents (termly) and the annual LAAT meeting.

 

Academy Committees will not be expected to monitor these as this is done by skilled School Effectiveness Advisers, in conjunction with peer visits.

To contact any member of the Academy Committee please email enquiries@horblingbrowns.laat.co.uk 

Newsletters

Academy Committee Members 

 

NAME

CATEGORY

APPOINTING

BODY

DATE OF

APPOINTMENT

TERM OF

OFFICE

RESPONSIBILITIES

DECLARATION OF

INTERESTS

Dean Casswell

 Foundation

LAAT

01/11/2022

4 Years

 

None Declared

Rob Fleckney

Parent

LAAT 

01/09/2020

4 Years

Teaching and Learning

Safeguarding

None Declared

 Laura 

 Maddick 

 Head of

 School

 By virtue to

 post

 01/09/2023   None Declared

 George

 Trafford

 Executive

 Headteacher

 By virtue to

 post

 01/09/2023   None Declared

 

Four meetings of the Academy Committee are held per year, at which all members attend and have voting rights.  In the case of a split vote the Chair of the Academy Committee will cast the deciding vote. 

 

Additional committees/working parties will be formed as and when required depending on the needs of the school.  All members attending these additional meetings will have voting rights.

Previous Committee Members (Within the last academic year)

 

Name

Category

Appointing Body

Resignation Date

  Sally Howley  Headteacher  By virtue to post  31/08/2023

  Georgia

  McCormack

  Parent  LAAT Appointed  31/08/2023
  David Warren  LAAT  LAAT Appointed  13/06/2023
  David Clements  LAAT  LAAT Appointed  31/08/2022
  Lesley Ede  Parent  LAAT Appointed  31/08/2022
  Shayne Martin  Parent  LAAT Appointed  31/08/2022

 

 

Academy Committee Information

Meeting Attendance

LAAT Governance Information

Clerk to the Academy Committee

Hannah Creasey

hannahcreasey@laat.co.uk