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 an Interim Executive Board (IEB) for Little Heaton since it joined Cranmer in March 2024, in place of a local governing body. The IEB are accountable to the Trust Board and provide interim expertise and high-quality governance to support school improvement. Whilst not trustees under charity law, the IEB are under a duty to act in good faith and in the interests of the School and the Trust.
Interim Executive Board Members:
· Janet Abbott (Chair)
· Emma Bezer (Vice Chair)
· Simon Buxton-Moore (Executive Headteacher)
· Rebecca Hunter (Executive Headteacher)
· Hayley McNeill (Interim Headteacher)
· Pam Heywood (Trust Appointed)
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. Cranmer Education Trust Governance Structure: Governance Structure – Cranmer Education Trust Constitution and attendance, business, and pecuniary interests: Members, Trustees and Governors – Cranmer Education Trust
