Governance and Academy Council

Applications are invited to join the NLC Academy Council as a skills-based Trust appointee.

Each academy within the Meridian Trust family retains their own Academy Council (formally local Governing Body), identity and individuality.

While the Trust is the employer of all staff, it has delegated powers to the Academy Councils to exercise governance arrangements for the Academy within the Trust.

The Academy Council is focused upon the individual school context, monitoring standards and achievement, and their local community needs and aspirations.

• Setting strategic priorities and plans
• Monitoring standards and achievement within the school
• Ensuring Trust policies are implemented
• Engaging with all stakeholders to improve outcomes
• Supporting and positively challenging practices within the Academy, through the School Leadership Team.

Some Academy Councillors takes on the role of ‘Champion‘ for a particular area, in which he/she holds the Academy leadership to account by providing challenge from their local knowledge and support from their own wider experiences.  The Champions link with the Trust leadership and directors to represent the interests of the Academy.  The Academy Council meets as a full body six times in the year.

If you would like to apply, please contact Emma Mawer, Head’s PA, for an application form, (EMawer@northstowe.education). 

NLC Academy Council

Any correspondence to the Chair of Academy Council should be addressed to: C/o Graham Whiting, Clerk to the Academy Council, Northstowe Secondary College, Stirling Road, Northstowe, CB24 1DJ, or gwhiting@gov.meridiantrust.co.uk

Copies of approved minutes of Academy Council meetings can be obtained by contacting governance@meridiantrust.co.uk

For Meridian Trust governance structure and Scheme of Delegation, please visit the Meridian Trust website.

For names of Meridian Trust Members, Trustees, and Policy & Scrutiny Committee members, please see the Meridian Trust Website.