Board Of Directors' Role

Foundation Board is responsible for the group strategy, management and governance of the Foundation together with the financial and educational performance of the schools.

Foundation Board are the legal governors and are accountable for all statutory functions. Many of these functions are discharged on behalf of the Foundation Board by the Executive Team.

At local level, trustees delegate governance functions to a LGB at each school. Trustees have complete discretion over what is delegated to each LGB. They may, for example, decide to delegate all functions to academies in the chain that are performing well and only a few to those academies that need greater support.

LGBs send documentation relating to their meetings into the Foundation, which holds a central record of agendas, papers and minutes of LGB meetings.

It is important to note that local governors are not trustees of a school, unless they also sit on the Foundation Board. The Board of Directors details can be found under About Us - Who are we?

ESF - Declarations of Interest

ESF - Board Attendance

ESF - Structure Chart

The Board has implemented the following committees:

Committee attendance and declarations of interest:

ESF Finance and Resources Committee Declarations

ESF Finance and Resources Committee Attendance

Education, Standards and Performance Committee Declarations

Education, Standards and Performance Committee Attendance

The terms of reference are as follows:

Finance and Resources Committee - Terms of Reference

Education, Standards and Performance Committee - Terms of Reference

The duty of each Committee is to ensure that ESF discharges its responsibilities for educational improvement in providing excellent education both in terms of academic attainment and character development, consistent with the ethos and values of ESF, so that all students are able to progress, achieve and to go on to succeed in life.