Governance

The Vine Schools Trust is a multi-academy trust and is the accountable body for all twenty three of its schools. Therefore, the overarching responsibility for the governance of the Trust and its schools lies with the Vine Board of Directors. They fulfil the three core functions of governance:

Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the effective and efficient performance management of staff; and
Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent.

To enable the Directors to fulfil their responsibility eight regional Local School Boards work on their behalf and undertake delegated local governance of between two and four schools. Community Boards in each school enable local support and provide information to enable good governance.

The key principle is that all three Boards together with Executive Leaders will provide an aspect of governance the other cannot as set out in this chart.

This model of governance is undertaken under delegated responsibility. For full details see below.

School Board Membership

Mrs Natasha Bennett – Headteacher

Mrs Carole Adams (Chair)

Mr A Jones (Health and Safety)

Ms Charlotte Little (Safeguarding and Child Protection)

Mr Mark Carter-Tufnell (Headteacher at St Osyth C of E Primary School and Mistley Norman C of E Primary School)

Mrs G Smith

Mrs K Wallace

Ms Lucy Turner

Full Name	Position	Term of Office start date	Nature of Business and Pecuniary Interest or Personal Relationship	Enhanced DBS
Mrs Natasha Bennett	Headteacher	September 2020	None	Yes
Mrs Carole Adams	Chair	September 2020	None	Yes
Mr A Jones	Health and Safety	September 2020	Wife – Head Teacher Great Clacton C of E	Yes
Mrs G Smith	Head Teacher at Orsett CofE Primary	September 2020	None	Yes
Mrs K Wallace	School Improvement Member	September 2020	None	Yes
Ms Charlotte Little	Safeguarding and Child Protection Governor	September 2020	None	Yes
Ms Lucy Turner	SEN Member	September 2020	None	Yes
Mrs B Gouge	(resigned)	September 2020	None	Yes
Mr M Carter-Tufnell	Headteacher at St Osyth C of E Primary School and Mistley Norman C of E Primary School	September 2020	Mayflower Training owned by family	Yes