Governance

Governance Contact Details

If you would like to contact a member of our Management Committee, please do so by sending your written correspondence to:

Chair of Management Committee, Avenue Centre for Education, Cutenhoe Community Learning Park, Cutenhoe Road, Luton, LU1 3NJ.

Alternatively you may wish to email:

Lawrence Patterson

Chair of Management Committee

Michelle Francis-Joseph

Governance Professional

Governance & Management Committee

As ACE is a Pupil Referral Unit (PRU), the Board of Governors is called a Management Committee and Governors are called Members. Governance of a PRU works in the same way as in a Local Authority maintained school.

Members of The Management Committee work with the senior leaders in the strategic development of the PRU. They support the Headteacher and staff as well as offering constructive challenge ensuring that the PRU achieves the very best it can for all students.

The three core functions of the Members are:

Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction.
Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils and the performance management of staff.
Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent.
Ensuring the voices of stakeholders are heard.

The Management Committee’s focus is the future of the school for the benefit of the students.

Governance Role

As Members, a critical part of our role is to ensure we develop and maintain strong links with parents/carers, staff and students.. To support this, we can often be found in and around the PRU, attending meetings and experiencing the many different activities that take place in the PRU.

We also try to attend as many PRU functions as we are able. The Management Committee last reviewed the Governance Role Descriptions on the 22nd September 2022.

Please click on the links below to view Role Descriptions which gives an overview of key governance roles.