To appoint external auditors To appoint internal auditors. To sign off annual accounts and report. To approve the financial scheme of delegation. To approve the annual budget for the Trust. To approve any significant changes to the approved budget. To monitor income, expenditure, cash flow and balance sheet of the CAT. To ensure each school has an appropriate charging and remissions policy and to keep this under review. To appoint an Accounting Officer. To ensure proper financial controls are in place. To maintain a register of business interests. To ensure adequate risk, financial and asset management systems are in place across the schools. To seek MTB approval any variances on delegated budgets reported by the LGBs for approval. To appoint a Local Governor responsible for finance. To approve the annual budget for the school. To monitor the income, expenditure and cash flow of a school. To ensure any variances from the budget are reported to the MTB. To ensure proper financial controls are in place at the school. To maintain a register of business interests. To ensure provision of free school meals to those pupils meeting the criteria. To prepare the annual budget for the CAT. To monitor the income, expenditure, cash flow and balance sheet of the CAT. To prepare monitoring reports for the Trustees . To act as the Accounting Officer. To ensure proper financial controls are in place. To maintain a register of business interests (of the Executive Leaders). To set up and approve staff expenses for the Executive Leaders. To open bank accounts. To ensure the preparation of the annual budget for the school with the assistance of relevant staff. To monitor the income, expenditure and cash flow of an school. To prepare monitoring reports for the LGBs. To ensure proper financial controls are in place at the school. To ensure provision of free school to those pupils meeting the criteria. To approve staff expenses at the school.
Members Main Trust Board (MTB) Hub Governing Body (HGB) Local Governing Body (LGB) Strategic Leadership Team (SLT) Headteacher (HT) To ensure a risk and is considered on an ongoing basis at MTB meetings. To review risk management and maintain a risk register. To approve insurance arrangements. To review and maintain a buildings strategy and asset management planning arrangements. To adopt a CAT health and safety policy To a CAT wide lettings policy To review risk and contribute to the internal and external audit processes. To identify proforma risk matters to inform the school specific risk register To reviewing the Risk Reports provided by the LGBs and make any recommendations to the SLT or notifications to the Trustees as appropriate. To monitor the hub arrangements for the effective supervision of building maintenance and minor works To monitor the implementation of the CAT health and safety policy across the schools in the hub. To appoint a Local Governor responsible for health and safety. To review the risk register of the school and prepare the Risk report for the HGB. To adopt a health and safety policy for the school (in line with the CAT wide policy and approach) To review the implementation of the above policy and ensure that appropriate risk assessments are being carried out in the school To conduct site inspections to review any health and safety issues and the security of premises and equipment. To monitor the implementation of a school letting policy that is consistent with the CAT wide policy. To draw up, and monitor an accessibility plan for each school in consultation with the Headteacher. To draw up, agree and monitor a business continuity plan for the school To prepare the risk register for the CAT To procure buildings and related insurance and make proposals to the MTB. To prepare a buildings strategy and asset management planning arrangements To propose a CAT wide health and safety policy for the MTB approval To monitor and support the implementation of the CAT wide health and safety policy. To prepare the risk register for the LGB having regard to any risks identified by the HGB and MTB. To prepare a health and safety policy for the School (in line with the CAT wide policy) for adoption by the LGB To monitor accidents and associated records. To ensure suitable risk assessments are prepared and appropriate actions To ensure the security of premises and equipment. To develop and implement the school lettings policy that is consistent with the CAT wide policy. To liaise with the SLT on the accessibility plan for the school