ROBUST OVERSIGHT FROM A PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP TEAM

Founding Members

Mr Allen McConaghie – Education Consultant and former headteacher 

Mrs Sarah-Jane Hudson (Chair) – former Solicitor specialising in construction and engineering law

Additional Members

Mr David Hagg - Former Chief Executive Officer of Stroud District Council

Rear Admiral (retired) Henry Parker - BAESYSTEMS Submarines DREADNOUGHT Whole Boat Integration Director

The Reverend John Thompson - Lead Chaplain Department of Spiritual Care Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS

Trustees

Mr John Gilbert

Mrs Jane Exworthy

Mrs Ruth Hollier

Mr Nigel Riglar (Chair)

Mrs Judith Taylor

Mrs Nikki Wadley

Dr Stuart Wilson (Chief Executive Officer)

Strong governance provides CBAT with:

• Leadership that champions CBAT’s vision and strategy.
• Clear accountability for both educational standards and financial performance and probity.
• Transparent and clearly defined roles and responsibilities, both for the Trust and for each separate Academy.
• Evaluation that monitors and improves the quality of governance.
• Compliance with statutory and contractual requirements.

Effective governance also ensures that each Academy acts in a manner consistent with the vision and values of the Trust and provides the flexibility necessary for it to take decisions that can be tailored to the local needs of its educational community.

Joining CBAT as a new academy creates the opportunity to:

• Work confidently with other like-minded schools focusing on excellence in teaching, learning and assessment.
• Develop a curriculum that reinforces your vision and allows you to be more relevant to the needs of the communities you serve.
• Change term dates and the number of INSET days to support the professional development of staff.
• Work under the umbrella of a larger organisation allowing you freedoms to attract and retain the best staff.

One of the key benefits of working in a school-led collaborative organisation like CBAT is the opportunity to share experience, best practice and professional generosity within the Trust to improve outcomes for students.

We are ready to take any best practice examples successfully embedded at one Academy and share them across all the others in the Trust to promote consistently higher standards as CBAT grows.

Every Trust needs a robust approach to operating effectively within inevitable financial constraints.

By centralising key support services and other administrative and corporate functions, and standardising key finance policies, CBAT aims to help each of its constituent schools to achieve better efficiencies, economies of scale and value for money.

• Centralised oversight and control of financial systems will enable the Trustees to achieve the best possible value for money
• Establishing joint procurement practices will drive efficiencies, broker solutions and secure maximum savings through economies of scale
• Specific examples of joint procurement of goods and services might include insurances, learning resources or materials and joint continuing professional development (CPD)
• Strong central support for CBAT’s operational needs can also free more time and resources for headteachers and their staff to invest in teaching and learning
• CBAT’s financial processes and contingency plans are sufficiently robust to be resilient to changes in income.

We are currently recruiting Trustees for CBAT and Governors for the Local Governing Bodies of Berkeley Primary School and Marling School. Please see adverts and application forms below for more information.