Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Corporate Governance Practices

::Redhill Education::

Corporate Governance Practices:

The board of Redhill Education has adopted a board charter. The board charter formalises the roles and responsibilities and defines the matters that are reserved for the board and specific matters that are delegated to senior executives.

To comply with the ASX corporate governance council’s principles and recommendations Redhill Educations has a board that is made of a majority of independent directors. Mr Beerworth, Dr Clark and Ms Trotman are independent non-executive directors. Mr Deane is a non-executive director who was engaged in an executive capacity on a part-time basis for approximately one month following the resignation of the company’s first CEO. Mr Elith is an executive director. The chair should also be an independent director, which he is – Mr Beerworth is an independent Non-executive Director. The Chair and the CEO should also not be exercised by the same individual. Mr Beerworth is the chair of the board and Mr Elith the CEO.

The board has adopted a code of conduct. The code of conduct sets clear values, emphasizing culture, sounds business practices and good ethical behaviour.

The company also has an audit and risk committee to help safeguard integrity in financial reporting.

The company has adopted a continuous disclosure policy to ensure that it complies with the continuous discloser regime under the ASX listing Rules and the Corporations act.

There is a risk management policy in place to identify business risks and for development and implementation of risk management and internal controls. 

The board have also established a remuneration committee and has adopted a remuneration committee charter. This charter is put in place to ensure that the company remunerates fairly and responsibly. Members of the remuneration committee are Ms Trotman (chair), Mr Beerworth, Mr Deane and Dr Clark. There are no schemes in place for retirement benefits other than superannuation for the executive directors.

You can find the following documents on the company’s website - http://www.redhilleducation.com/investor-centre/

Board Charter

Charter of the audit and risk management committee

Charter of the remuneration committee

Code of Conduct

Code of conduct – directors and senior officers

Continuous disclosure policy

Diversity policy

Employee Share Option Plan Rules

Risk Management Policy

Securities Trading Policy

 

 

 

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