Trustees/Governors

About the EBN Academy Trust

The East Birmingham Network is one of six networks which are part of Birmingham Local Authority.  There are 13 secondary schools within this network (2 of which are the EBN Academies) that provide for over 18,500 students between the ages 11 to 19.  These East Birmingham Network Secondary schools have a long history of collaboration in areas such as Behaviour and Attendance Partnerships, Sharing Panel, collaborative continual professional development, collaborative school evaluation, local area curriculum planning and joint Post-16 provision. The EBN Partnership opened the EBN Free Schools to provide purposeful learning environments for vulnerable students who were at risk of permanent exclusion. EBN Academy (Yardley) opened in September 2012. In September 2015 EBN Academy 2 (Castle Vale) opened forming the EBN Academy Trust. The EBN Academy Trust and it’s 2 Academies is now governed separately from the EBN Partnership but there are still strong links between the two, with the 2 Academies sitting on the East Birmingham Partnership of schools and overseeing the East Birmingham Partnership Sharing Panel, a serving EBN partnership Head Teacher sitting on the Board of Trustee’s and another senior member of staff sitting on the Local Governing Board of the Trust. EBN Academy has a PAN of 75 students and EBN Academy 2 a PAN of 78 students   and between them the Academies now serve up to 30 separate schools (Mainstream secondary and other Alternative Provision) across Birmingham, Solihull and occasionally Warwickshire.

Our Academies

EBN Academy (Yardley)

EBN Academy 2 (Castle Vale)

 

The MAT Structure consist of:

A) Members

B) MAT Board of Trustee’s

C) Finance, Audit, HR and general purposes

D) Local Governing Body (LGB)

E) Health and Safety Committee

 

Members:

Gaetano Ferrante

Glen Alexander

Alex Hughes

 

Board of Trustees:

Sukhbir Farar (Chair)

Alex Hughes

Jill Saunders

Jas Sohal

Phil Melling

Rita Sohal

Carla Tranter

Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (CEO)

 

Finance, HR and General Purposes Committee:

Jas Sohal (Chair)

Alex Hughes

Jill Saunders

Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (CEO and Accounting Officer)

 

Audit and Risk Committee:

Alex Hughes (Chair)

Jas Sohal

Rita Sohal

Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (CEO and Accounting Officer)

 

Local Governing Board:

Jill Saunders (Chair)

Karen Cornell (Head Teacher  – EBN Academy)

Karen Shearer (Head Teacher – EBN Academy 2)

Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (CEO)

Joshua Lawrence

Naila Sulieman

Steve Hobson

 

Health and Safety Committee:

Matthew Wallis-Baldwin (Chair and CEO)

Anthony Round (CFOO)

Karen Cornell (Head Teacher  – EBN Academy)

Karen Shearer (Head Teacher – EBN Academy 2)

Laura Donohoe

Pete Deakin

Nafisa Rehman (EBN Academy Staff Rep)

Tom Ellis (EBN 2 Staff Rep)

Steve Hobson

 

Governance Professional:

Charlotte Kennedy (Judicium Education)

 

Other:

Under Scheme of Delegation, can the text be removed and be replaced with the following:

The scheme of delegation sets out the Trust’s approach to delegations between the different layers of governance within the Trust. It describes who is ultimately Accountable, who is Responsible for doing, and who should be Consulted.  While ultimately the Trust bears responsibility for the standards of educational delivery, compliance and safeguarding the scheme of delegation reflect the individual nature of the Trusts Alternative Provision Academies and delegates some areas of responsibility to the local level.