Mead Road Infant School

WHAT DOES THE Local Advisory BODY DO?

The Local Advisory Body (LAB) is part of E21C Trust’s overall governance arrangements, with specific focus at a local school level. The Local Advisory Body

works as a team and is at the heart of how the school operates.

It is responsible for monitoring that the school provides a good quality education and is continually raising educational standards. The Local Advisory Body also encourages and supports effective ways of teaching and learning when reviewing the school aims and policies. This is done together with the Headteacher, who is responsible for the day-to-day management of the school.

In addition to the Local Advisory Body’s main role of helping raise pupils’ standards of achievement, we also:

support the school in its strategic direction
are accountable for monitoring the performance of the school to parents and the wider community
monitor that a balanced and broad curriculum is taught
review how the school can encourage pupils’ spiritual, moral, and cultural development
monitor that the school is inclusive and provides for all pupils including those with special needs
oversee the implementation of policies on a wide range of school issues and monitor their effectiveness
support and constructively challenging senior management by gathering views, asking questions, looking at comparable data and discussing what’s best for the school

WHO IS THE Local Advisory BODY?

The current Local Advisory Body is made up as follows :

Name	Position /type of governor	Term of office start	Term of office end date
Andrew Goldman	Chair of LAB Co-opted	07/03/2024 06/12/23	05/12/26
Miss Susie Price	Interim Headteacher	27/08/24	Ex-Officio
Paloma Rao	Co-opted Governor Child Protection and Safeguarding	05/10/22	04/10/25
Altaf Jilani	Local Advisory Body	04/12/24	03/12/27
Joe Robjohns	Governing Board	29/03/23	28/03/26
Claudine Calkin	Governing Board	29/11/22	28/11/25
Lucy Downing	Parent Governor	06/12/23	05/12/26
Edward Springall	Parent Governor	06/12/23	05/12/26
Nicole Vijoen	Staff Governor	1/02/22	31/01/25

At Mead Road Infant School, the Local Advisory Body fulfils these roles through four meetings per year, covering:

Safeguarding
Quality of Education
School Improvement
Behaviour and Culture
Curriculum
Stakeholder engagement
Staffing
Building & Sites

The Local Advisory Body also holds two additional meetings with specific focus on teaching and learning, culture, and ethos. The Local Advisory Body reviews the school’s priorities and strategies for the year ahead and reviews the previous year to monitor the school’s overall performance.

There are also numerous ad-hoc meetings of other groups, working parties as required and specific panels for various procedural reasons.