Run governance across every school in your trust.
govern.school is built for the way UK MATs actually work, trust board, local governing bodies, central clerking, and the roll-up reporting trustees expect.
Trust scope. School scope. Both, properly.
A trust isn’t a list of schools, it’s a governance structure. People can hold roles at trust and school level, simultaneously. Committees can be trust-scoped (audit, finance) or LGB-scoped. The product is shaped this way from the data model up, not as a feature flag.
- Trust-scoped people, committees, and documents
- LGB-scoped people, committees, and documents, per school
- Memberships can be both, with role-specific permissions
Committees that map to your scheme of delegation.
Trust-wide committees (audit, finance, standards, ethos, remuneration) sit at the trust. LGBs and their sub-committees sit at the school. The product enforces the scope; you stay aligned with your scheme of delegation.
- Trust-wide and LGB-scoped committee templates
- Chairs and clerks per committee, automatic delegations
- Linked channel per committee for between-meeting discussion
One clerk, many schools, no chaos.
Clerks who work across multiple trusts and schools have a single login, a single calendar, and a single inbox. Switch context with one click, or with ⌘K.
- Multi-trust memberships for clerks & auditors
- Rail switcher: every trust the clerk serves, one click away
- Roll-up calendar across all schools and trusts in scope
MAT executive visibility, without a report-writing project.
Attendance, decisions, action completion, and challenge-log activity, rolled up to trust level. Trustees see meaningful numbers without anyone exporting to Excel.
- Trust-level attendance dashboard with 75% threshold
- Open actions across every committee in the trust
- Challenge-log coverage per LGB, flag boards that don’t
Your MAT is already in there.
The biggest cost of governance software is the implementation. We removed it.
Trust pre-loaded
Your trust, schools, and DfE-registered governors are already in. Member-level changes you make in 5 minutes.
Customise committees
Adjust trust-wide committees (audit, finance, standards) and LGBs. Templates available for common MAT structures.
Run the next meeting
Schedule the next meeting and the workflow takes over. No batch import, no implementation project.
Your trust’s data was sourced from Companies House, the DfE academies dataset, Get information about schools (GIAS), and your trust’s public website. We verify it, you confirm it.
See your MAT in 20 minutes.
We’ll pull up your trust live on the call. Trustees, schools, committees, governors, already there.