Governance

Ellacombe is proud to be a member of the Learning Academy Partnership, a highly successful, inclusive, Multi Academy Trust.  Its governing body is the Board of Trustees of the Learning Academy Partnership.

More information about the governance of our school can be found on the Learning Academy Partnership website, using the links below:

Governance
An overview of Trust Governance including the Governance Structure and Scheme of Delegation for the Learning Academy Partnership.

Members of the Learning Academy Partnership
For information about the Members’ role and who they are.

Board of Trustees
For information about the Trustees’ composition and biographies, business interests and attendance, opportunities and how to contact the Trustees.

Trust Board Committees
An overview of the constitution and responsibilities of the Trust Board Committees.

Key Information
For formal documents about the Learning Academy Partnership: memorandum and articles of association, funding agreements, annual reports, financial statements and audit reports.

Ethos & Advisory Committees

Each school within the Trust belongs to an Ethos & Advisory Committee which reports to the Board of Trustees with delegated powers. These committees meet regularly and are accountable to the Board of Trustees.

Ensuring strength of relationship between the school and governance is important to us. Through the Trust’s Scheme of Delegation, there are clear responsibilities and accountability structures that ensure that support and challenge is in place across the school. Each Ethos Board has a designated Ethos Portfolio Holder who takes the lead on monitoring and evaluating the Christian Ethos, Inclusion, Safeguarding and Teaching and Learning across the Hub schools, triangulating information, asking the questions ‘what is it like to be a pupil/staff member/parent at this school?’, monitoring the priorities and impact of the leadership team, providing challenge and professional dialogue and feeding back to the wider EAC team to increase understanding of strengths and next steps.

The impact of this role was noted in the recent Ofsted inspection “Governors and Trustees know the school’s strengths and areas of development. They support and challenge leaders. Leaders and Governors have a shared vision for the future development of the school. (Ofsted 2023)”

Ellacombe C of E Academy is a member of the Torquay Ethos & Advisory Committee.