Sentences with phrase «academy trusts»

In 2016, 40 per cent of academy trusts engaged in related - party transactions, worth a total of # 120 million.

Our goal is to be amongst the best multi academy trusts in the country.

We're not talking about extra money for buildings but assistance for academy trusts in financial difficulties.

An answer to a Parliamentary question shows that the proportion of academy trusts with an annual shortfall doubled in two years.

The government has a target to open 500 more free schools - and all new schools opened by academy trusts now have to be designated as free schools.

Questions about pay for academy trust managers are also against a background of schools complaining about budget shortages.

In single academy trusts, the governing body acts on behalf of the trust board.

But an analysis of the latest annual accounts for ten of the largest academy trusts shows at least three appear to use similar investment strategies that involve some risk.

In academies, the governing body is normally called the «academy trust board» or «board of trustees».

The exams regulator has appointed five new board members, including two multi academy trust chief executives.

You also may find that certain values and skills that new academy trusts find crucial are not apparent in their new employees.

The education secretary has been accused of «hiding» a financial investigation into a controversial academy trust run by the government's former free schools director.

It focuses on academy trusts when there are highly - paid heads of maintained schools — something that we have addressed this year.

A new pay and rewards system developed by a leading academy trust to recruit, retain and reward teachers has been backed by the country's biggest teacher union.

It is unclear if this exemption will also include academy trusts.

A couple of thoughts on this: It's good to hear some positive news about academy trusts for once.

The Collaboration Agreement model means that each academy is a separate stand alone academy owned by a separate academy trust company.

Accountability: If all schools were put into academy trusts, operating across many different parts of the country, how will individual schools remain accountable to parents and their local community?

The government argues that allowing academy trusts to run schools without parent governors is not the same as removing them.

The overall gender pay gap is shockingly wide in many academy trusts.

But he suggested that it showed successful local authorities should be able to set up their own academy trusts, rather than have schools taken away from them.

The government has written to more academy trusts asking them to justify the large salaries they pay their employees.

However the trust, which runs three primaries, is now considering merging with a larger academy trust over financial difficulties.

The key for schools joining existing academy trusts will be to assist with the due diligence exercise prior to conversion.

We question whether the eight named «preferred» academy trust sponsors have the capacity and track record to take on these schools.

Nearly 140 academy trusts failed to submit their accounts on time in the past financial year.

At the root of this, he argues, is a «systemic fault» in the lack of transparency and accountability in how academy trusts are governed and funded.

We want it to focus minds because the stakes are simply too high to leave the quality of academy trust governance to chance any longer.

The education landscape is changing fast and school leadership has diversified to include executive heads and academy trust CEOs.

Researchers have identified 13 academy trusts responsible for 12,000 pupils or more, which are dubbed «system leaders» under a new system used by the national schools commissioner.

The inner workings of one of the country's most controversial academy trusts have been laid bare in the minutes of trustee meetings, obtained by a Freedom of Information request.

Despite these funding pressures, the department is not doing enough to identify academy trusts that are at risk of getting into financial difficulty, the report states.

A schools commissioner offered a troubled academy trust a «sweetheart deal» to quietly shift its schools to avoid information about its failings being made public.

A termination warning notice is the second stage in the government's intervention process for struggling academy trusts.

As academy trusts have no shareholders, the rules therefore apply to the members of the trust.

Recently, as we have had to, we have looked at academy conversion with other schools (as you must now join or set up as a multi academy trust now).

However, on the positive side academy trusts should be open to new values and skills which could be introduced to their trust and be of great benefit.

Instead there will be a focus on choosing governors for academy trusts according to their skills, who might be parents or might not.

The education select committee questioned three of the country's regional schools commissioners to give evidence into an inquiry into multi academy trusts.

Free schools are state - funded schools which can be set up by community groups or charities - but are now most commonly opened by academy trusts.

There are now more than 2,000 separate trusts running academies and he told heads there would be «far more robust oversight» of the finances of academy trusts.

Working alongside schools providing advice on academy trust governance structure and options available including model articles of association and guidance on completing required consultation.

Two of the country's largest academy trusts are eyeing expansion after a government ban on taking over new schools.

The new register will allow academy trusts to deliver apprenticeship training to their own staff and pupils instead of relying on other providers, such as colleges or a private business.

Where a school is joining an existing academy trust this step will not be relevant.

The measures used to judge the performance of academy trusts has been a contentious one, with view differing across trusts.

This form is for academy trusts and the companies «limited by guarantee» that form them to apply to open a free school.

a supportive network of other Family Support Workers as part of the wider NET Academies Trust schools;

The schools are all part of the Astrea Academy Trust which has seen a 13 per cent increase in the children reaching the required standard in the end of year six tests — rising from 32 per cent in 2016 to 45 per cent.