Governance
The Trust believes that schools need to be autonomous if they are to be truly effective in serving their community. This means headteachers have the authority to lead and run their school, working with local governing boards, explicitly aligned with and committed to the Trust’s aims, values and practices. There is a clear scheme of delegation. The Trust’s key role is to provide the support and challenge required for the school to deliver and maintain excellence.
The Trust offers value to the school by providing expert support from the centre for: the leadership and delivery of teaching and learning; finance; HR; ICT; estates. It also provides a range of central services, such as financial and management information systems, payroll, IT and larger procurement where it is evident that such services will provide better value in terms of time and cost.
Governance Structure
Effective governance within the DET is achieved through a shared vision and a connected thread of delegated responsibility and accountability. Whilst the Trust Board cannot ever delegate its accountability, it can delegate some of the detailed scrutiny, oversight and decision making. The Governance structure is composed of:
Members: the Members ensure the Trust meets its charitable objectives by appointing the Trustees, agreeing to the articles of association and appointing the auditors.
Trustees: the Trustees are the employer and are accountable to the Members. The Trust Board carries out the core governance functions, ensures compliance and appoints the CEO. They hold the executive leaders to account and are responsible for the development of the Trust, the strategic direction and strategic priorities.
Local Governing Board (LGB) Governors: the LGBs are the link between the Trust, schools, families, students and the local communities. They provide scrutiny of the delivery of the Trust's objectives and monitor expenditure against the school's budget, holding the school's leadership to account. For future details about each school's LGB, please visit: Dunraven School, Goldfinch Primary, Van Gogh Primary, The Elmgreen School, Rosendale Primary
If you wish to find out more about our Trust, please contact Kylie Burgess, Governance & Compliance Manager via governance@det.org.uk
NOTICE OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM) 2021
Members
David Bryan CBE
Member of the National Council for Arts Council England and the chair of Working with Men, David has previously been a successful small business owner, director of Brixton Village Community Arts Centre, board member of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations and director of Community Foundation Network. He has worked with several charitable trusts such as Comic Relief, Barings Foundation, the City Bridge Trust and Trust for London in a variety of roles including grant panel member and grant assessor. At Camelot Foundation he was vice-chair of the board. David designed and delivered the Arts Council England's training on Equality and Diversity for many years and has also held a number of lecturing posts at Birkbeck College, London South Bank University, Goldsmiths College and City Lit Institute.
Appointed - July 2011 (Founding Member)
Anne Hudson
Anne taught mostly history in various London schools for 34 years. She is an experienced senior leader and worked at Dunraven School during 2003 -5. She went on to be head of two large secondary schools for 6 and 7 years respectively. She worked with colleagues during her second headship to set up a primary school and a multi-academy trust. She holds the National Professional Qualification in Headship as well as a PhD in Education. Her expertise includes teacher training, school improvement and school inspection. She enjoys educational research and has developed insight into evidence informed practice in FE and schools. Before teaching, she spent 7 years working to support Namibia's struggle for independence from racist South Africa during the time of apartheid.
Appointed - April 2020
Phyllis Dunipace
Appointed - September 2021
Helen George
Appointed - September 2018
Cathy Harvey
Formerly a technical sales specialist with IBM and then a local political organiser, Cathy is now a Citizens Advice adviser. She has been a school governor for 19 years, during which time she has been secretary of Lambeth Governors’ Forum, chair of governors at an outstanding local primary school as well as chair of Dunraven Educational Trust, where she is part of the team that steered the school through academy conversion.
Appointed - July 2011 (Founding Member)
Trustees
Jennese Alozie
SEND / Pupil Premium Link Trustee
Jennese has over 25 years of Education sector experience. Until recently she was the Director of Effectiveness and Performance for STEP Academy Trust. As part of this MAT Executive team for the past 6 years, Jennese contributed to its successes and growth from 6 schools when she joined to 20 schools across London and East Sussex. Jennese is a Lead Ofsted Inspector and has held senior and Executive leadership positions in Secondary and Primary schools. Trustee for two MAT Boards and a Teaching School Hub Strategic Board member. Recently, she was appointed as CEO of University of Chichester Academy Trust. She is also an amateur ceramist.
Term of office - July 2020 to July 2024
David Boyle CBE
CEO
Formerly the Principal of Dunraven School for 15 years, David is designated as a National Leader of Education. He is an experienced senior leader and English teacher. He has been a member of the South East and South London Regional School Commissioner's Advisory Board, is currently on the Association of School and College Leaders' Council and served two terms as the chair of the Department for Education's Secondary Heads Reference Group. He is an Ofsted Inspector and a lead reviewer for Challenge Partners. He is a fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and a life fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was awarded a CBE for services to education in 2021.
Ex-officio
Anthony Blaiklock
After becoming a chartered accountant, Anthony spent the next 25 years working in corporate finance for HSBC, Deloitte and his own business. He then became Finance Director of an early stage renewable energy company, before spells in a similar role for an energy efficiency business, a manufacturer of a water saving device and, most recently, a robotics company involved in reducing the carbon footprint of buildings. Anthony was a Trustee of Trinity Academy when it became part of Future Academies Trust in December 2020. After a short period as a member, Anthony became a Trustee of Dunraven in June 2021.
Term of office - June 2021 to June 2025
Kate Edwards
Kate spent the early part of her career as a self-employed barrister before moving to an in-house role as a senior lawyer working for the Financial Conduct Authority. She advises on public law, risk and governance issues in addition to financial services and has a particular interest in diversity and inclusion, the Equality Act and the public sector equality duty. Kate has been a school governor for eight years, holding roles outside DET in that time including Chair of Governors at a Lambeth primary school, safeguarding lead and chair of disciplinary and exclusion panels.
Term of office - July 2019 to July 2023
Malcolm Forbes
Chair of the Education & Standards Committee
Formerly founder owner of an IT services company Malcolm had over 35 years experience working in Information Systems. He has also worked in the public sector, specialising in planning, property, land and regeneration systems and was deputy CEO of a regeneration agency in South London. Until his retirement several years ago he ran a successful web applications development agency. He was also CEO of Brixton Online, a local social enterprise providing IT training, support and web applications to the local community.
Malcolm has nearly 30 years experience in school governance at primary and secondary level as well as 8 years experience as a trustee of the RSA (Royal Society of Arts) Academies and as a member of the Central Academies Trust, a medium sized Multi Academies Trust based in Birmingham.
Term of office - January 2020 to December 2023
Helen George
Chair of Trust
Term of office - October 2019 to October 2023
Also a Member appointed September 2018
Cathy Harvey
Vice Chair of Trust and Chair of the Finance & Assurance Committee
Formerly a technical sales specialist with IBM and then a local political organiser, Cathy is now a Citizens Advice adviser. She has been a school governor for 19 years, during which time she has been secretary of Lambeth Governors’ Forum, chair of governors at an outstanding local primary school as well as chair of Dunraven Educational Trust, where she is part of the team that steered the school through academy conversion.
Term of office - November 2020 to November 2024
Ali Malsher
Health & Safety Link Trustee
A partner in Anthony Gold LLP for almost 20 years Ali has been a solicitor for more than 25 years, specialising in negligence. She is training partner at Anthony Gold overseeing the training of all staff and the qualification of trainees. As part of her role as a partner Ali is involved in business and finance decisions and the management of a substantial legal firm. Ali is also qualified as a solicitor in the republic of Ireland. Ali is a qualified nurse, training at St Georges Hospital, Tooting. Ali is also a qualified governance professional.
Term of office - June 2019 to May 2023
Nicholas Taylor-Mullings
Co-opted Trustee
Term of office - June 2022 to June 2026
Sarah Tillotson
Safeguarding Link Trustee
Sarah works at the Education Endowment Foundation, a grant-making charity dedicated to breaking the link between family income and educational achievement. Sarah leads the EEF’s work on two themes: early years, and language and literacy. Her work on these themes includes identifying research gaps and promising interventions, managing research trials, and developing publications to communicate the findings of research to schools and early years settings. Prior to this, she worked in schools for eight years, the majority of this time in early years leadership positions, alongside teaching in reception or nursery. She taught in Hackney, East London and also taught in Hong Kong, supporting the establishment of two new kindergartens. She became a trustee of the GNWET in 2020 and then DET in 2021.
Term of office - October 2021 to September 2025
Sarah Totham
Term of office - October 2021 to September 2025
