Agenda item

Report of the Clerk.

Trustees considered a report of the Clerk regarding the appointment of the Board’s committees for the 2019-20 academic year.

Trustees agreed the following amendments to the terms of reference of committees:

Finance Audit and Risk Committee

·         Remove the requirement for the Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees to act as Chairman;

·         Remove references to the company names of the current providers of audit services to the Trust; and,

·         Amend the composition of the committee membership to allow ‘at least three Trustees’.

Standards and Accountability Committee

·         Replace the reference to ‘Chief Operations Officer’ to ‘Chief Standards Officer’; and,

·         Amend the composition of the committee membership to allow ‘at least three Trustees’.

Trustees agreed that the election of Chairmen to these committees would be undertaken at the first meeting of each committee convened during the 2019-20 academic year.

RESOLVED,

·         That the terms of reference of the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee be approved, subject to the above amendments;

·         That the terms of reference of the Standards and Accountability Committee be approved, subject to the above amendments;

·         That the terms of reference of the Remuneration Committee, Academy LGB Pay Committees and City of London Academies Trust Executive Team Pay Committees be noted;

·         That Peter Bennett, Edward Benzecry, Dawn Elliott, Deputy Clare James Andrew McMurtrie and Mark Emmerson (the latter for Finance matters only) be appointed to the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee for the 2019-20 academic year;

·         That Edward Benzecry, Roy Blackwell, Tijs Broeke, Ann Holmes and Andrew McMurtrie be appointed to the Standards and Accountability Committee for the 2019-20 academic year; and,

·         That Roy Blackwell, Deputy Clare James and Andrew McMurtrie be appointed to the Remuneration Committee for the 2019-20 academic year.