Governance
Chorus Education Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust (MAT), which is a charity and company limited by guarantee.
A MAT is a single entity established to undertake a strategic collaboration to improve and maintain high educational standards across a group of schools.
The MAT is accountable for the performance of each school in the group and has overarching responsibility for their governance, although each school has their own local governing body which operates as a board of trustees sub-committee subject to delegation of power from the MAT.
Members
The Members determine the ethos and purpose of the Trust (for example the provision of education) and the way it will be governed (which is in the Articles of Association).
They have a right (not an obligation) to participate in governance by appointing and removing Trustees. They also have a right to receive the Trustees’ annual report and accounts and to attend general meetings of the Trust.
View our full list of Members.
Trustees
The Board of Trustees are the people responsible for the carrying out of the business of the trust, for example the running of the academies, though management responsibility will be delegated further still to a management board or leadership group made up of executive officers (such as the Chief Executive Officer) and the headteachers of the academies.
The Trustees are also directors of the trust, given the trust is a company, and will be under a fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of the trust.
View our full list of Trustees.
Local Governing Bodies
Each school within the trust has its own Local Governing Body (LGB).
They:
- act as a critical friend to the headteacher of the school
- represent the views of the community and make recommendations in discussions that relate to community engagement and activity
- support senior management in dealing with parental complaints
- support in the exclusion processes where appropriate.
View the LGB Scheme of Delegation
View the LGB's Terms of Reference
Information on each school’s LGB is available on their individual school websites.
Committees
Our work is managed through a series of committees, led by the Board of Trustees:
- Audit and Risk Committee (Chair: Steve Shaw)
- Attendance, Behaviour and Safeguarding (ABS) Committee (Chair: Nicola Shearstone)
- Finance and Resources Committee (Chair: Tony Saunders)
- Quality of Education Committee (Chair: Zoe Sullivan)
- South Yorkshire Teaching Hub (SYTH) and Subject-Centred Initial Teacher Training Committee (Chair: Chris Fox)