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Members of the academy trust: roles and responsibilities
Learn about the role of members in an academy trust, and understand their key responsibilities.
Contents
- The role: in summary
- Key responsibilities
- Members' meetings
- Appointing trustees
- Holding the trustees to account
- Liability
- Communicating the role to others in the trust
- Resolving differences between members and trustees
Also in this topic: Trustees, members and MAT boards
- Academy trust AGM: attendance and agenda
- Academy trustees: legal obligations
- Boards of trustees and local governing bodies: terms of reference
- CEO report to the MAT board: template and guidance
- Disqualification of trustees in academies
- Examples of role descriptions for academy trustees
- MAT trustees: self-evaluation and training resources
- Members of the academy trust: appointment, removal and resignation
- Removing an academy trustee from office
- Role of a company secretary
- Role of the clerk (academies)
- Terms of reference: committees in multi-academy trusts (MATs)
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