Include Education Group
Lines of accountability and support across the group — roles, not individuals.
- Welby Grange
- St Matthews
- West Bars
Include Education Group is the proprietor of Welby Grange, St Matthews and West Bars. This page explains how our schools are governed, how leaders are held to account for the quality and safety of every school, and how those judgements are independently verified. Accountability flows upward through evidence; support and challenge flow downward through leadership.
The structure
Three tiers of leadership, each accountable to the one above and supported by it.
Proprietor Body / Board of Directors
Include Education Group holds ultimate legal and strategic responsibility for every school in the group.
Independent verification & assurance to the proprietor
Educational Psychologist
Verifies wellbeing, inclusion and therapeutic-provision judgements.
NLE for SEND
A National Leader of Education who verifies curriculum and SEND judgements.
Stone King Law
Legal advisers who review and assure policies and compliance documentation.
Executive Leadership Team (ELT)
Group-level leadership for quality, safeguarding, standards, compliance and operations.
- Director of Education (ELT Lead)
- Director of Safeguarding
- Director of SEND
- Director of Operations
Head of Centre — one at each school
Each Head of Centre leads their school, supported by a school senior leadership team.
Welby Grange
Head of Centre, with School SLT: Deputy Head · Assistant Head (SENCo) · Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL).
St Matthews
Head of Centre, with School SLT: Deputy Head · Assistant Head (SENCo) · Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL).
West Bars
Head of Centre, with School SLT: Deputy Head · Assistant Head (SENCo) · Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL).
How judgements are assured
Accountability at every tier is evidence-based and triangulated — no single source stands alone.
Curriculum Impact Dashboard
The primary communication point for each school’s progress and impact measures, reporting up from Head of Centre to the ELT and on to the proprietor.
Proprietor visits
Planned, first-hand assurance visits that test the data against reality and the lived experience of pupils.
Independent expert & legal verification
The Educational Psychologist, NLE for SEND and Stone King Law independently validate the group’s judgements, outcomes and documentation.
How it works in practice
The accountability cycle
The proprietor body holds the ELT — led by the Director of Education — to account for the quality and safety of every school. The ELT in turn holds each Head of Centre to account for their school, always alongside clear, practical support.
Support alongside challenge
Challenge is never isolation. Each Head of Centre receives coaching, CPD, safeguarding supervision and protected capacity from the ELT; the ELT receives strategic direction, resources and independent expertise from the proprietor. Support and challenge are two halves of one accountable system.
Dashboard, visits and verification
The Curriculum Impact Dashboard is the shared language of progress across the group. Proprietor visits triangulate what the data shows, and independent experts and legal advisers verify the group’s judgements and documentation — so decisions are grounded, honest and externally assured.
Roles shown are postholder titles; named postholders sit behind each role. This structure is reviewed annually. Version 1.1.