Guidance Notes

This guidance note provides an overview of multi-academy trust governance and provides details of those areas that can contribute towards building good governance in the organisation, with a particular focus on the role of trustees and directors.

This guidance note is aimed at trustees/directors of multi-academy trusts (MATs) in England and can be adapted for any size of MAT to reflect good practice for each academy’s needs.

This guidance is a response to that challenge, setting out a roadmap for those who want to provide their board with the very best information and insight.

This guidance note is aimed at trustees/directors/governors of 16–19 academy trusts and can be adapted for any size of academy to reflect good practice for each organisation’s needs.

Conflicts of interest and loyalty for governors of colleges and trustees of academies will occur, this guidance provides detail on how to identify, avoid and manage them appropriately.

This series of guidance is designed to help organisations implement the Tier 3 requirements of the Code for Sports Governance (the Code) and to prompt an assessment of governance arrangements more generally within individual sports bodies.

This guidance looks at how to recruit successfully, and how it is essential that all involved know exactly what the legal role and duties of trustees are.

This guidance note has been produced to help readers navigate the legal requirements of GDPR.

The aim of this guidance note is to assist boards in thinking about how to ensure they understand and weigh up the interests of their key stakeholders when taking strategic decisions. It identifies ten principles to guide the way boards approach these issues.