Shaw Education Trust Governance
http://www.shaw-education.org.uk/our-trust/governance
Academy Council Members
Tom Barr
Type of Academy Councillor: Chair of Academy Council (Co-opted)
Last Date of Office: 31st January 2025
Record of Full Meeting Attendance 2022/23: Apologies accepted for one meeting
Pecuniary Interests: None recorded
Contact Email: Tom.Barr@madeley.set.org
Angela Austin
Type of Academy Councillor: Academy Councillor (Teacher)
Last Date of Office: 7th November 2027
Pecuniary Interests: Subject Leader of Science at Madeley School
Record of Full Meeting Attendance 2022/23: N/A as Newly appointed (Nov 2023)
Nigel Jones
Type of Academy Councillor: Academy Councillor (Co-opted)
Last Date of Office: 31st January 2025
Record of Full Meeting Attendance 2022/23: Apologies accepted for one meeting
Pecuniary Interests: Governor at Westlands Primary School & Chair of the Lib-Dem Education Association
Sue Lee
Type of Academy Councillor: Academy Councillor (Staff)
Last Date of Office: 30th September 2025
Record of Full Meeting Attendance 2022/23: Apologies accepted for two meetings.
Pecuniary Interests: None recorded
Robert Millington
Type of Academy Councillor: Academy Councillor (Co-opted)
Last Date of Office: 29th June 2023
Record of Full Meeting Attendance 2022/23: Apologies accepted for one meeting
Pecuniary Interests: None recorded
Claire Nicoll
Type of Academy Councillor: Academy Councillor (Co-opted)
Last Date of Office: 15th January 2026
Record of Full Meeting Attendance 2022/23: Attended all meetings to date
Pecuniary Interests: Director of Work Best Ltd
Emma Tomlinson
Type of Academy Councillor: Academy Councillor (Parent)
Last Date of Office: 31st March 2025
Record of Full Meeting Attendance 2022/23: Apologies accepted for one meeting
Pecuniary Interests: None recorded
Janice Leverone (Resigned)
Type of Academy Councillor: Academy Councillor (Staff)
Last Date of Office: 30th September 2025
Record of Full Meeting Attendance 2022/23: Attended all meetings to date
Pecuniary Interests: None recorded
Helen Bebbington (Resigned)
Type of Academy Councillor: Academy Councillor (Co-opted)
Last Date of Office: 11th December 2022
Record of Full Meeting Attendance 2021/22: Attended all meetings to date
Pecuniary Interests: Current Headteacher of The Meadows Primary School in Madeley
Matthew Treharne-Clarke (Resigned)
Type of Academy Councillor: Academy Councillor (Parent)
Last Date of Office: 31st March 2025
Record of Full Meeting Attendance 2021/22: Apologies accepted for one meeting
Pecuniary Interests: None recorded
Mark Brown (Resigned)
Type of Academy Councillor: Vice Chair of Academy Council (Co-opted)
Last Date of Office: 31st January 2025
Record of Full Meeting Attendance 2022/23: Apologies accepted for two meetings
Pecuniary Interests: None recorded
Lee Nixon
Principal
Lee Barber
Shaw Education Trust
http://www.shaw-education.org.uk/
Governance Professional Clerk – Angela Manley angela.manley@entrustclerk.com
Ms R Pimblott (SET Finance Business Partner) attends the Resources Meetings as a guest.
Members of SLT attend meetings as required.
Academy Council Meeting Schedule
All meetings start at 5pm unless otherwise stated.
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Local Academy Councils
Accountability is a key part of our values and, as such, our local governance model is vital to this. We have two models operating across our schools as follows:
1. Academy Councils (ACs)
2. Interim Executive Boards (IEBs)
Academy Councils offer a more traditional model of local governance, with an appointed membership board working regularly with schools under our scheme of delegation. Academy Councils work to a standardised agenda produced by SET, which covers a wide range of school business to ensure the school is meeting the needs of its pupils and the local community. As such, the Academy Council will have 2 parents as members.
IEBs are an interim measure put in place when SET judges a school to require rapid impact. IEBs are made up of education and support services professionals from within the Trust who have the expertise to challenge and support the school to succeed. Once the school has achieved improvement expectations, the IEB will transition into an Academy Council.
Within Shaw Education Trust our function of governance at local level is:
“To be responsible for supporting and challenging our Academy and Trust leaders, ensuring that decisions made at a local level are for the benefit of pupils, and directly linked to the strategic vision of the Academy and Trust. To ensure these decisions consider the views of our other stakeholders (parents, staff and local community) and effective communication exists between all. These decisions centre mainly around areas of educational standards & provision, and operational functions, as detailed in the Scheme of Delegation.”
Madeley School currently works with an Academy Council.
Academy Council Diversity Information
We continually work to develop a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion, in which all those connected to Shaw Education Trust feel proud of their identity and ability to participate fully in school life. In our current structure, governance roles at our academy are composed of approximately 100% white British and 0% minority ethnic background.
* Please note that councillors are able to opt out of sharing this information so percentages can only be seen as an approximation.
(*The DfE as one of their metrics, suggest that for data collection purposes, any individual who is of any origin other than white British, is defined as being of minority ethnic background.)”