Trust Board and Governance

In our Multi-Academy Trust (MAT), a single Trust is responsible for all of the member academies (16 academies as of March 2023).

The member academies and Chairs of Governors currently comprise:

Academy

Chair of Governors

Moseley Park & Heath ParkDr Afua Adu Boateng
D’Eyncourt Primary & Woden PrimaryCarl Fox
Coppice High SchoolMartin Morris
Westcroft & WVTCPaul Bellamy
Broadmeadow SpecialDr Deepak Kalra
Eastwood, East Dene & ColeridgeRay Griffiths MBE
Vale of Evesham SchoolJackie Summerfield-Constable
Kingfisher SchoolSam Gould
Riversides School & Newbridge SchoolDee Milbery
Pitcheroak SchoolJoshua McNamee

The MAT consists of the Members and the Directors.

Members and Directors

There are 3 Members of CLPT, The Members are akin to the shareholders of a company. They have ultimate control over the academy Trust, with the ability to appoint some of the Directors and the right to amend the Trust’s Articles of Association. The Members are responsible for holding the Directors to account.

There are 7 Directors. Directors are responsible for the governance functions such as setting the direction of the trust, holding the CEO/headteachers to account and ensuring financial probity. As charity Directors, they also ensure that they are complying with charity law requirements. Academy Trusts are charitable companies and the Directors are company directors and must comply with company law requirements.

CLPT Directors sit on a Trust Board which requires them to regularly attend meetings, manage conflicts of interest, seek advice from the academies leadership teams and Executive Directors and ensure that the academies have appropriate procedures in place for reporting financial information. The Trust Board has delegated some of its decision-making to a Finance and Personnel Committee, an Audit and Risk Committee and a Pay and Remuneration Policy Committee to assist in discharging its functions

CLPT Articles of Association state that the Chair of the Board of Directors will also be a Member, thereby ensuring a link between the two layers.

(* These are also Directors who sit on the Trust Board)

 

MembersAppointment DateBusiness Interests
Robert Turton*13th March 2015Listed under the role of Director
Phillip Marshall13th March 2015
Jayne Pownall15th June 2022Governance Consultant

 

TrusteesAppointment DateTerm StartTerm End
Graham Parker07 Feb 201807 Feb 202206 Feb 2026
Robert Turton (Chair)11 Mar 201611 Mar 202011/03/2028
Rachel Nash02 Feb 202202 Feb 202201 Feb 2026
Sofia Zamir15 May 201915 May 202314 May 2027
Marva Rollins14 Nov 202414 Nov 202413 Nov 2028
Peter Bourton11 December 202411 December 202410 December 2028
Georgetta Holloway05 February 202505 February 202504 February 2028

Chief ExecutivesRole
Georgetta Holloway OBEChief Executive
Doug Selkirk OBELead Executive
Phil WilliamsChief Finance Officer

Historical Directors

DirectorsAppointment DateResignation Date
Jeremy Vanes2 February 202223 July 2024
Emma Woodhouse9 July 202026 November 2024
James Nichols15 May 201916 December 2024

Local Governing Bodies

CLPT has local governing bodies (LGBs) and Local Executive Governing Bodies (LEGB) and its membership are referred to as ‘governors’.

The details of what has been delegated from the Directors to local governors is detailed in a CLPT Scheme of Delegation. Even though some functions have been delegated to LGB’s, the Directors still remain accountable and responsible for these functions. (n.b. local governors are not Directors of the Academy Trust).

In Wolverhampton and Worcester there are individual LGBs and LEGBs.  In Rotherham there is an Executive LGB which oversees the three primary schools.

Governance For New Schools Joining the Trust

Structural change, in any area of life, creates turbulence and the structural change of a school, from maintained to academy status, is no different. With this in mind, the Trust has moved to ensure that the implications for the governance of all schools undergoing conversion are minimised. There is however a difference, in our approach, between the process we adopt for converter and sponsor-led academies.

With the former, we do not make any changes to the composition of their governing body, other than adding two Trust nominees. It may well be that those nominees are already existing members of a particular governing body or they may be new additions.

For a sponsored-led academy, the Trust will add two nominees to the governing body and over a period of time reduce the number of governors to a minimum of nine voting members. This model will remain in place until the academy in question receives a “good or better” Ofsted judgement.

The Trust, in consultation with Governing Bodies, has articulated the Delegations for decision making so that there is clarity on responsibilities and who undertakes important tasks such as appointments, much in the same way as the LA has done previously.