The Purpose of Governance
To provide confident, strategic leadership and to create robust accountability, oversight and assurance for educational and financial performance.
All boards, no matter what type of schools or how many schools they govern, have three core functions:
- Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
- Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the performance management of staff; and
- Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent.
Please find below, details of our Local Governing Committee:
| Name |
Appointing By Date of Appointment |
Term of Office | Voting Rights |
Meeting Attendance |
Assigned Responsibilities | Declarations of Pecuniary or Business Interest | Other Governance Roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrea Gray | Headteacher - e.g. 01.04.23 | Ex Officio | Yes | 6/6 | Headteacher | N/A | N/A |
| Craig Fishwick | Foundation (Trust Appointed) - 01.04.23 | 01.04.23 - 31.03.27 | Yes | 6/6 | Chair of LGC / Safeguarding | N/A | N/A |
| Sean Holliday | Foundation (Trust Appointed) - 01.04.23 | 01.04.23 - 31.03.27 | Yes | 4/6 | Vice Chair | N/A | N/A |
| Patricia Hood | Foundation (Trust Appointed) - 01.04.23 | 01.04.23 - 31.03.27 | Yes | 6/6 | N/A | N/A | |
| Alan Chester | Foundation (Trust Appointed) - 01.04.23 | 01.04.23 - 31.03.27 | Yes | 2/6 | N/A | N/A | |
| Heather Feehan | Staff Elected - 01.04.23 | 01.04.23 - 31.03.27 | Yes | 6/6 | N/A | N/A | |
| Charlotte Rolfe | Foundation (Trust Appointed) - 01.04.23 | 01.09.23 - 31.08.27 | Yes | 5/6 | SEND | N/A | N/A |
| Kirsten Price | Foundation (Trust Appointed) - 01.04.23 | 01.09.23 - 31.08.27 | Yes | 6/6 | N/A | N/A | |
| Lauren O'Hagan | Parent Elected - 11.12.23 | 11.12.23 - 10.12.27 | Yes | 4/4 | N/A | N/A | |
| Amy Leigh | Parent Elected - 01.04.23 | 01.04.23 - 31.03.27 | Yes | 0/6 | N/A | N/A |
Cidari has a highly skilled Board of Trustees, approved by the Department for Education. The Board of Trustees delegate decision making for certain functions to a Local Governing Committee for each Academy. In Cidari each Academy has a Local Governing Committee (LGC). The LGC will continue to ensure that the needs of the Academy are monitored closely.
The structure of Cidari allows for more formalised, collaborative working whilst allowing the individual characteristics, distinctiveness and ethos of each academy to continue.
Cidari has a very small group of Members who are named for legal purposes. Members hold the trust board to account for the effective governance of the trust, the members themselves have a minimal role in the actual running of the trust. It is the trust board, not the members, who are the organisation’s key strategic decision makers. The MAT Board of Trustees has overall responsibility and accountability in law for the performance, site and overall running of the Trust and each of the Academies.