12 As a charity and company limited by guarantee, the ODBST is governed by a Board of Trustees who are responsible for and oversee the management and administration of the Company and the academies run by the Company. Governance arrangements comply with our articles of association. All our schools have their own Local Governing Bodies (LGBs) who serve our local communities. The communities which serve our Trust are diverse, which both enriches the Trust and makes it sensitive to local needs, pressures, and opportunities. Although Trustees delegate considerable responsibility to LGBs, there is oversight and scrutiny by them. The ODBST help support the LGBs to shape the needs of their communities. Our Trustees are accountable to external government agencies including the Department for Education (for the quality of the education they provide) and Ofsted (both at a school level for the quality of education and across the MAT as part of their Academy Trust Review cycle). Each school with their LGBs have systems in place through which they can assure themselves of the quality, safety, and good practice which the ODBST provides. Local governing bodies (LGBs) There is a real focus on maintaining schools in their communities and for the ODBST to be responsive to parents and other communities’ interests. Trustees are elected to establish LGBs to focus this individuality and contextual reflection. To achieve this, Trustees are clear about the levels and areas of delegation of Trustee responsibility to a local level through a Scheme of Delegation. Please see Appendix 1 – Summary of ODBST scheme of delegation. Our LGBs have a clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities and have the right skill set, (through a rigorous induction, ongoing training program) to ensure theydrive a clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction within the ODBST family; hold leaders to account for the educational performance of their school, its pupils, and staff; overseeing the financial performance of the school with its delegated budget, making sure its money is well spent and assuming delegated responsibility for ensuring that the school fulfils its statutory duties. Having a local governing body is an essential feature of the ODBST as these local governors understand their schools well-the staff, the parents, the children, and the community. LGBs play a pivotal part in canvassing the views of our academies’ stakeholders, which we believe is essential to the success of all our schools. Trustees ODBST Trustees are mainly appointed by Members. The Trustees set the strategic direction of the Trust, hold Senior Leaders to account and, as a business, oversee the Trust’s financial performance. They are both company directors and charity Trustees for the ODBST. They retain overall responsibility for the operation of the ODBST and its academies and determine the level of delegation and the subsequent level of autonomy at the level where decisions can best impact on the quality of education and the experience pupils in the school. Members The Members at ODBST are akin to the shareholders of a company. They have ultimate control over our Trust, with the ability to appoint the Trustees and the right to amend the Trust’s articles of association.
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