Management Committee

The management committee (MC) plays a strategic and advisory role in setting out and maintaining the vision, aims and objectives of Newham PRUs in conjunction with the LA. This is to ensure that all pupils are safe, have their needs met, make appropriate progress and receive a good standard of education.

There are two sub-committees to lead on specific areas of responsibility

Teaching, Learning, Safeguarding and Behaviour

Finance, Staffing and Premises

Meeting Dates

Each sub-committee and the full management committee meet three times a year

FSP Sub Committee	T&LBPD Sub Committee	FMC
21st October 2024 9th December 2024	14th October 2024	19th November 2024
17th March 2025 28th April 2025	10th March 2025	31st March 2025
2nd June 2025	19th May 2025	23rd June 2025

Membership of the Management Committee

Name	Employment Status	Company Details	Additional Contracts	Membership	Date Appointed	Term of Office Ends	Sub Committee
Lando Du Plooy	Employed	TBC	TBC	CHAIR Community	30/09/2024	30/09/2028	Finance Staffing and Premises
Carel Efoma	TBC	TBC	TBC	Parent	01/04/2025	01/04/2029	Finance, Staffing and Premises
Katherine Randall Curtis	Employed	London Borough of Islington	No	Community	20/05/2019	19/05/2027	Teaching, Learning Safeguarding and Behaviour


Kirsten MacLeod	Employed	Head Teacher, Newham PRUs, London Borough of Newham	No	Head Teacher	01/09/2016	Ex-officio	TLS&B and Finance, Staffing and Premises
Liz Shirley	Employed	Strategic Finance and Business Manager, Newham PRUs, London Borough of Newham	No	Community	27/02/2017	22/03/2029	Finance, Staffing and Premises
Sheila Roberts	Employed	Director of Licensing and Regulatory Services, London Borough of Newham	No	Community	11/07/2022	06/11/2026	Finance, Staffing and Premises
Upasana Malhotra	Employed	New Directions, London Borough of Newham	No	Staff	22/03/2021	16/03/2029	Teaching, Learning Safeguarding and Behaviour
James Beckles	TBC	TBC	TBC	Local Authority	30/09/2024	30/09/2028	Finance, Staffing and premises
Eavan McKay	TBC	TBC	TBC	Parent	10/03/2025	10/03/2029	Teaching, Learning Safeguarding and Behaviour
Felicia Lord-Attivor	TBC	TBC	TBC	Community	10/03/2025	10/03/2029	Teaching, Learning Safeguarding and Behaviour

What do the management committee do?

The Management Committee is the governing body for all Newham PRUs Provisions. This includes Tunmarsh School and New Directions PRU. Newham PRUs Management Committee plays a strategic and advisory role in exercising statutory functions, including those delegated to them by LBN.

They work closely with LBN in setting a strategic framework for the PRUs.

This strategic framework:

Sets out appropriate aims and objectives;
Identifies and includes policies, targets and priorities;
Sets out arrangements for monitoring and reviewing aims, objectives and whether the policies, targets and priorities are being achieved.

The Management Committee is informed by the Headteacher and Leadership Team before taking their own decisions.

Working strategically, Management Committee members then use monitoring evidence to review and evaluate progress against any targets set to see whether a policy is working or needs changing.

There are 4 meetings of each Committee every Academic Year:

Full Management Committee - Chair: Robert Turner
Finance, Staffing and Premises Sub Committee - Chair: Robert Turner
Teaching, Learning, Safeguarding and Behaviour Sub-Committee - Chair: Jade Dempster

The Management Committee plays a strategic and advisory role in setting out and maintaining the vision, aims and objectives of Newham PRUs on behalf of / in conjunction with LBN.

This is to ensure that all pupils are safe, have their needs met, make appropriate progress and receive a good standard of education.

Statutory functions of the Management Committee include:

compliance with financial, employment, Health and Safety law etc.
deciding the curriculum to offer
deciding the times of school sessions
overseeing any exclusions.