Welcome to our Governors’ section

Please find below details of how our Joint Local Governing Body is structured, including the names, categories, responsibilities and terms of appointment for each Governor. 

Former Governors (those who have left between 30.1.24 - current date)

You may contact our Governors/Chair of Governors by emailing the Governance Professional, Tracy Smith, at tsmith@henrymoore.essex.sch.uk or sending a letter to the school.

Governance within the Harlow Inspirational Learning Trust

Within the Harlow Inspirational Learning Trust (HILT), the ultimate strategic decision-making body is the Board of Trustees (sometimes referred to as the Trust Board of Directors). It is the responsibility of the Trustees to hold the executive headteacher to account, and to provide challenge and support to ensure the Trust fulfils its charitable remit, which is to deliver high-quality education to all our pupils.

Above the Board of Trustees is a committee of Members who are responsible for scrutinising the actions of the Board. Members appoint the Trustees, and can remove them if they are unhappy with their performance.

Under the Board of Directors sit three committees: the Finance, Audit and Strategy Committee – which takes a detailed look at finance, premises, health and safety and other matters on behalf of the Board – and the two Local Governing Bodies, one at Milwards and one at Henry Moore.

The job of the Local Governing Bodies is to be the eyes and ears of the Trust at the local level, and to monitor and report on whether the Trust’s strategic objectives and policies are being met. But the Local Governing Bodies also represent the views and needs of the school and its stakeholders within the Trust, so that Trust policies and decisions can take those views and needs into account.

The roles and responsibilities of these different layers of governance are set out in the Trust's Scheme of Delegation.