Summer Lane Primary School are a member school of HCAT. Each school within the trust maintains its unique identity and HCAT strongly believe that excellent schools have excellent leadership and management from within, and a key component of this is governance.

Overarching responsibility lies with the Board of Trustees and they have established Local Committees within each school to govern at individual school level. Click here for the trust Governance Arrangements that outlines the structure and remit of the trust’s members, board of trustees and sub committees.  The Chair of the LC is Peter Bell. Contact can be made via email (see address in banner at top of webpage).

Summer Lane Local Committee

Our Local Committee are responsible for providing confident leadership and robust accountability, oversight and assurance for education, safeguarding and community engagement.

Our Local Committee constitution includes:

– At least 2 parent committee members

– Up to 3 persons co-opted by members of the Local Committee

– Up to 2 persons appointed by the Board of Trustees

Our Register of Business Interest documents any financial interests, affiliations, and potential conflicts of interest of individuals within our Local Committee to ensure transparency.

Please follow link for Members’ register of business interest: Register of Business Interest

The Role of the Local Committee

In trusts, the purpose of governance is to provide:

·         strategic leadership

·         accountability and assurance

·         strategic engagement

Effective governance is based on six key features:
– Strategic leadership that sets and champions vision, ethos and strategy.
– Accountability that drives up educational standards and financial performance.
– People with the right skills, experience, qualities and capacity.
– Structures that reinforce clearly defined roles and responsibilities.
– Compliance with statutory and contractual requirements.
– Evaluation to monitor and improve the quality and impact of governance.

The Local Committee works in partnership with school to support the strategic leadership of the school and ensure the continuation of rapid and sustained improvement. Committee members work effectively with senior leaders to uphold the school vision and core values, ensuring the best possible education and outcomes for pupils.

The term in office for each member is 4 years.

Members’ roles and responsibilities are as follows:

• Standards & Outcomes – Mr Bell
• Curriculum/ Teaching & Learning – Mr Bell
• Safeguarding, Behaviour & Attendance – Mr Bell
• Pupil Premium – Mr Bell
• SEND – Mr Armin
• SMSC & Wellbeing – Mrs Rhodes

Our Current LC consists of:

Chair of Committee- Mr Peter Bell (Co-opted)

Peter has a long standing career working in school governance and is currently the School Governance and Alliance Board Service Manager at Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (BMBC).

He has been a school governor for over 20 years and is also the Chair of Governors of a local authority maintained primary school in Wakefield. He has recently become a member of BMBC’s Schools’ Forum.

He is contactable via the email address: see school office address above.

Co-opted Committee member – Mr J Armin

Parent Committee member – Mrs S Rhodes