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Role of a company secretary
What is the role of a company secretary in an academy trust? Our associate experts explain the role of a company secretary and how the role may differ in a multi-academy trust (MAT). You will also find information on recruiting company secretaries and the skills and knowledge they should have.
Contents
- Requirements
- Appointing the company secretary
- Eligibility to be company secretary
- Working with the clerk
- Key tasks of company secretaries
- Effective company secretaries: advice
- 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
- Members of the academy trust: roles and responsibilities
- Removing an academy trustee from office
- Role of the clerk (academies)
- Terms of reference: committees in multi-academy trusts (MATs)
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