Trust Governance Structure
The Board of Directors fulfill both the role of directors under company law and trustees under charity law and exercise the powers and carry out the duties of PDET. The Board of Directors is responsible to the Members of PDET as well as the parents, pupils and staff at its academies. Directors work through their committees and the Central Executive Team with the Academy Governance Committees to ensure the quality of education and financial management provided at each academy.
Five committees operate under the PDET Board of Directors: Audit and Risk Committee, Business and Finance Committee, Education Committee, Governance and Nominations Committee and People and Pay Committee.
The Board of Directors is the overall governance body and is accountable for the Trust. Local governing bodies, who are called Academy Governance Committees (AGCs) in our Trust, are committees to which the Directors have chosen to delegate some specific responsibilities.
Executive Directors
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Ruth Walker-Green – Chief Executive Officer of PDETRuth has worked in education for over 25 years. She joined Peterborough Diocese Education Trust in 2014 in the role of Headteacher before being seconded, full time, in |
Non Executive Directors
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Margaret Holman – ChairMargaret was Headteacher of Bishop Stopford School, a Church of England converter academy for 16 years. During this time, she was a National Leader of |
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Dr Gordon TempleGordon served for sixteen years as chief executive of Torch Trust, a Christian charity working nationally and internationally with people with sight loss. |
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Andrew ScarboroughAndrew Scarborough is a Justice of the Peace on the Northamptonshire Bench and a long-standing member of the Borough Council of Wellingborough. |
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Jan MartinJan was Head of Inclusion and Head of School Improvement for Northamptonshire for 7 years. She has been an Ofsted inspector for many years and |
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Anup SodhiAnup is an Audit Partner at Ernst & Young with experience of working with a range of businesses from large global to local entrepreneurial. Anup is |
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Simon RoseSimon is the National Executive Director of Education for the primary arm of a large UK multi-academy trust. He has spent over twenty years working |
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Ryan HardingRyan is a chartered management accountant and has many years experience across a number of large UK businesses within the retail sector. |
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Hugh RavenHugh is a solicitor, who trained and qualified at Linklaters LLP before becoming a Partner at Eversheds LLP in London. He was General Counsel and Company Secretary at Kier Group plc and is the General Counsel and a Board member at Willmott Dixon. |
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Greg CracknellGreg worked as a teacher in the Peterborough area for twenty years before moving to Northampton to become a Senior Lecturer at the University of Northampton working with both undergraduate and postgraduate Primary Teacher Education students. He is a member of the Peterborough Diocese Board of Education. He is an experienced governor, including being chair of three different schools. |
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Maxine ClewlowMaxine Clewlow was a Director of Schools for the LEAD Academy Trust in the West Midlands, a role supporting Headteachers and being responsible for the outcomes in their academies. Her work with Pupil Premium across the Trust has been noted in the Trust’s Ofsted Summary Review. She has been a successful Headteacher of Faith schools in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, both accredited as outstanding by Ofsted. As a Designated Support School and NLE, Maxine supported a number of other schools who found themselves in challenging circumstances. Maxine was seconded to HMI and subsequently was retained as an Additional Inspector. |
Directors Documentation
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Board and committee attendance 2022-23
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Directors register of interests 2023-24
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