Individuals who sit on Local Governing Boards are referred to as ‘local Governors’.
This is because Trustees can delegate governance functions to the local level. Trustees have complete discretion over what is delegated to each local Governing Board. They may, for example, decide to delegate all functions to academies in the chain that are performing well and only a few to those academies that need greater support. Alternatively, where a multi-academy trust wishes to retain all governance functions centrally, it may establish an advisory body at the school level, which has no formal governance function but which advises the Board of Trustees on its decisions.
Governance in Multi-academy Trusts, National College for Teaching and Leadership (2014)