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Local Governing Committees

Each school has its own Local Governing Committee.

The Trust Board has established Local Governing Committees for each of the Academies for the most part made up of people drawn from the Academy’s community. Governors serving on Local Governing Committees are accountable to the Trust Board as well as to the communities they serve. Whilst not trustees under charity law, the Governors are under a duty to act in good faith and in the interests of the Academy and the Trust.

Details of the authorities delegated by the Trust Board to the local Governing Committees are set out in the Scheme of Delegation (Section 4). In summary, it is the role of the governors to:

Hold the headteacher and senior leadership of the Academy to account for the educational performance of the school and the quality of provision for pupils.

Ensuring clarity of the Academy’s vision, ethos and strategic direction.

Fulfil the statutory responsibilities in relation to SEN, Safeguarding, Disadvantage, Looked After Children, Behaviour, Careers (Secondary) in line with trust policies.

Governance in Our Schools

Our Local Governing Committees (LGCs) are the heart of each school, championing their communities with passion and purpose. Rooted in Christian ethos, they work closely with school leaders to tailor support and monitor performance.

Meet the dedicated volunteers who govern our schools. Each LGC, led by a chair, brings expertise and commitment to ensure our schools shine. Below, will link you to the direct governors page for each of our schools.

The Blue Coat School

The Brian Clarke CE Academy

East Crompton St Georges Primary School

Little Heaton Primary School

Mayfield Primary School

Saddleworth School

St Annes Academy

St John Thornham Primary School

St Matthews Primary School

The Radclyffe School

Key Documents

LCG Terms of Reference March 2025

Blue Coat School - Constitution & Attendance 2024-2025

Blue Coat School - Business & Pecuniary Interests 2024-2025

STA - Constitution & Attendance 2024-2025

STA - Business & Pecuniary Interests 2024-2025

Mayfield - Constitution & Attendance 2024-2025

Mayfield - Business & Pecuniary Interests 2024-2025

Brian Clarke Academy - Constitution & Attendance 2024-2025

Brian Clarke Academy - Business & Pecuniary Interests 2024-2025

Little Heaton - Constitution & Attendance 2024-2025

Little Heaton - Business & Pecuniary Interests 2024-2025

St John's Thornham - Constitution & Attendance 2024-2025

St John's Thornham - Business & Pecuniary Interests 2024 - 2025

St Matthew’s Constitution and Attendance 2024-25

St Matthews - Business & Pecuniary Interests 2024-2025

East Crompton St Georges - Constitution & Attendance 2024 - 25

East Crompton St Georges - Business & Pecuniary Interests 2024-2025

Saddleworth Constitution and Attendance 2024-25

The Radclyffe School Constitution and Attendance 2024-25

Collecting and publishing governing committee diversity data

Diversity is important and we want our trustees and our local governing committees to be increasingly reflective of the communities they serve. The Trust is in the process of working through Governor Hub’s facility to see if it is possible to collate Trustees’ and Local Governing Committee members’ information. The return will be voluntarily, and they can opt out of sharing their information, including protected characteristics, at any given time including after publication. To ensure that individuals cannot be identified through the publication of data, anonymous data will only be published in an appropriate format based on the number of optional returns. The current legal advice is that the safest way to protect data subjects and special category data, meeting the UK GDPR standard, would be to publish information that does not amount to ‘personal’ because it is anonymous, and therefore data protection principles do not apply.

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