Governing Body

Little Heaton CE Primary School - Governance

Little Heaton CE Primary School is part of the Cranmer Education Trust. Formalised cross school governance arrangements can help with efficiencies, with ultimate corporate accountability held by the Trust Board and corporate and strategic functions being carried out centrally, leaving local governing boards free to focus on pupil progress and attainment for their individual schools.

The Trust Board has established Local Committees for each of the Academies for the most part made up of individuals drawn from the Academy’s community. Local Committee Members serving on Local Committees are accountable to the Trust Board as well as to the communities they serve. Whilst not trustees under charity law, the Local Committee Members are under a duty to act in good faith and in the interests of the Academy and the Trust.

Little Heaton Local Governing Committee:

Janet Abbott (Trust Appointed Governor and Chair)

Emma Bezer (Trust Appointed Governor and Vice- Chair)

Mrs Chloe Noon (Headteacher)

Pam Heywood (Trust Appointed Governor)

Dr Lee Schofield (Trust Appointed Governor)

Kieran Judge (Trust Appointed Parent Governor)

For further information about governance within the trust please see the following links:
The Cranmer Education Trust – Governance Structure

Little Heaton’s Governors’ Register of Attendance at Business Interests since joining the trust can be found here:
Members, Trustees and Governors – Cranmer Education Trust

Annual Reports and Accounts for the Trust:
Company information – Cranmer Education Trust

Collecting and Publishing Local Governing Committee Diversity Data

Diversity is important and we want our trustees and our local governing committees to be increasingly reflective of the communities they serve. The Trust is in the process of working through GovernorHub’s facility to see if it is possible to collate Trustees’ and Local Governing Board members’ information. The return will be voluntarily, and they can opt out of sharing their information, including protected characteristics, at any given time including after publication. To ensure that individuals cannot be identified through the publication of data, anonymous data will only be published in an appropriate format based on the number of optional returns. The current legal advice is that the safest way to protect data subjects and special category data, meeting the UK GDPR standard, would be to publish information that does not amount to ‘personal’ because it is anonymous, and therefore data protection principles do not apply.

Local Committee Members can be contacted through the Trust Governance Professional by email on [email protected] and marking your correspondence: LHP Governance Referral.