Governance

All free schools, like Academies, are governed by not-for-profit charitable trusts, which are closely monitored by the Audit Commission to ensure that they provide good value for the public money with which they are entrusted.

In the case of St Andrew the Apostle School, the Governing Body is the Board of the Russell Education Trust (RET), a Government-approved academy sponsor. Information about RET's Trustees can be found on the RET website.

In each of its schools, RET formally delegates a range of its responsibilities to a Local Governing Body representing the community.  More information about this structure can be found in the RET Scheme of Delegation and the St Andrew the Apostle School Governing Body Standing Orders.

A close, consultative relationship exists between RET and the Local Governing Bodies of its schools and the views of local governors inform all aspects of RET policy.

St Andrew the Apostle School Local Governing Body

The St Andrew the Apostle School Local Governing Body includes the Headteacher, two elected parent governors and up to ten further governors appointed by the Trust.

Local Governors are appointed/elected for a 4 year term, and are currently as follows:

Name	Appointer / Date:	Responsibilities:	Date stepped down (where applicable)
Mary Karaolis OBE (Chair)	RET/Sept 2021	SFG
Maria Frangeskides (Vice Chair)	RET/Sept 2021	INC
Metropolitan Athanasios	Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain /Sept 2021
Marina Pareas	RET/Sept 2021	Behaviour and Attendance
Costas Frangeskides	RET/Sept 2021
Savvas Agathangelou	RET/Sept 2021	H&S
Adele Klitou	RET/Dec 2021
Kevin McSharry	RET/Dec 2020
Danny Lynch	RET/Sept 2019
Eleni Stathi	Elected/Dec 2021
Jason Phasouliotis	Elected/Jan 2022
Indira Warwick (Headteacher)	RET/January 2021
Theo Theodorou (Associate Governor)	RET/January 2020
Yiannis Pareas			April 2020 (RIP)
Chris Kyprianos			July 2021
Michael Pieri			December 2021