Governance
There are three layers of governance in our multi-academy Trust.
Members
Members’ statutory responsibilities are set out in the Articles of Association and their role includes: appointing and removing the MAT Trustees, calling an annual general meeting, appointing the MAT auditors and receiving the annual accounts and directing the Trustees to take specific actions.
Bishop John Bosco McDonald
Bishop of Clifton Diocese
Lyn Murray
Chief Operating Officer, Clifton Diocese
Mary Cox
Director of Schools and Colleges, Clifton Diocese
Michael Thompson
Our Trustees
Trustees are responsible for the strategic direction and policy development for the Trust. They have governance oversight of both the Trust and its schools. Trustees take decisions that are in the best interests the MAT as a whole and are not representative of any one of the constituent schools. The Trustees are also Directors of the Academies Trust which is a company limited by guarantee and registered as such at Companies House.
The Trustees are below. The Trust Board Committees include the Safeguarding, Education and Welfare (SEW) committee and the Finance, Audit and Risk (FAR) committee : (Trustees profiles can be found here)
Executive Team
Local Governance Committees
Local Governance Committees operate under a Scheme of Delegation which is determined by the Trustees. Each local governance committee is responsible for monitoring the educational standards and the ethos and values in each of our academies. Local governance committees include governors who are appointed by the Diocese as well as parent governors, the headteacher and a staff governor.
Visit each of our school’s websites to find further information about local governance.
St Catharines
St Josephs
St Peters
St Thomas More
The Catholic School of Saint Gregory The Great
The Rosary
Important Information
GIAS – Little Way Catholic Educational Trust
Companies House – Little Way Catholic Educational Trust