The Achievement, Support and Scrutiny Committee supports the Trust board in fulfilling statutory duties relating to curriculum, standards and safeguarding and understanding the unique context of each school, whilst ensuring a consistent approach to reporting.

It supports the Trust board in understanding relevant key performance indicators, including performance, progress, outcomes, behaviour and attendance. The Committee meets at least four times a year, including once per year to review the Trust’s SATs results.

The Committee works closely with the Trust Improvement Board to oversee the Trust’s safeguarding, educational and curriculum standards, performance, and school improvement model across all schools.

These are summarised below:

• maintaining a culture of safeguarding and embedding Prevent Duty
• statutory requirements in relation to the curriculum offer
• special educational needs of pupils attending Trust schools
• Trust policies in relation to its Curriculum Statement
• overall quality of teaching
• provision of extra-curricular and community activity

• monitoring and review of the achievement of strategic safeguarding and educational objectives

• information on curriculum and quality issues for all Trust schools through the use of a Performance Canvas for each school
• progress reports on the implementation of post-Ofsted action plans and any other formal evaluation reports
• review of outcomes, identifying significant changes in performance, emerging trends, and risks in relation to the future performance of each school and the Trust