Governance

Welcome from the Chair

It is with a great sense of pride that I chair the Salterns Academy Trust Board. The Trust Board provides the strategic direction and vision for the Salterns Academy Trust and its principal purpose is the education and wellbeing of its staff and pupils.

The members of the Board are accountable for the governance of the Trust, the educational provision in its two schools, and for creating an environment for the Headteachers’ to manage the teaching, learning and personal development of the pupils at Admiral Lord Nelson School and Trafalgar School.

The Trust Board ensures strategic and financial decisions support high quality education in our schools and ensure that every student is empowered to achieve their true potential and become a positive influence on society now and in the future.

As a Trust we are proud that both schools embrace inclusivity and place student’s wellbeing and education at the centre of all they do. We set high aspirations for all pupils and staff to ensure that as a Trust and as Schools we are evaluating our performance and seeking continuous improvement to our provision.

Each School has achieved OFSTED recognition as a Good School. Both schools have also achieved the UNICEF Rights Respecting Silver Award. We are proud of the way in which our leaders and staff embody these principles in their schools. The Silver Award reflects our values of providing high quality educational provision and inclusivity along with being community focussed, and these values and principles underpin everything we do.

Andy Cree
Chair
Salterns Academy Trust Board
c/o Admiral Lord Nelson School, Dundas Lane, Portsmouth, PO3 5XT

Trust Members

Roles and Responsibilities

Every Trust has Members who have a similar role to shareholders of a company limited by shares. Salterns Trust has four Trust Members, but the Articles of Association establish the Chair of the Trust Board as a fifth Member.

Members are kept informed about Trust business so they can be assured that the Board is exercising effective governance. This includes providing the Members with the Trust’s audited annual report and accounts.

Trust Directors

Roles and Responsibilities

The Trustees should focus on 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 students and the performance management of staff

• Overseeing and ensuring effective financial performance

They must comply with the Trust’s charitable objects, with company and charity law, and with their contractual obligations under the funding agreement. As an employer, the Trust has a range of wider obligations including such matters as employment law and health and safety.

Full register is available here:

Salterns Academy Trust Register of Business Interests

Structure Chart

The Trust Finance Audit and Risk Committee is chaired by Paul Hayes. The committee's remit is to advise the Trust board on matters relating it its audit arrangements, systems of internal control and risk management.

The Pay and Conditions committee is chaired by Andy Cree. The Committee is responsible for advising the Trust board on matters relating to the Trust's staff organisation and all issues relating to pay and appraisal arrangements.

All meeting agendas, reports and approved minutes are available on request by contacting the Clerk to the Trust Board on clerk.alns@salterns.org. The Trust has delegated authority to the Local Governing Body (LGB) for each school (as per the Scheme of Delegation). Each LGB meets at least 8 times a year. Each LGB has its own terms of reference and meetings etiquette. LGB information is found on the relevant school’s website.

The Trust Board Meetings

The board meets 7 times per year. Details of board meetings can be obtained by contacting clerk.alns@salterns.org