Sentences with phrase «around academy conversion»
Ofsted's annual report reveals that of 170 local authority - maintained schools that were languishing at the lowest rating in April last year, when new rules around academy conversion came into force, 65 of which have still not converted to academy status.
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Our school payroll business has grown on the back of the academy conversion programme and we now provide payroll services to around 170 Schools.
One last comment, as I understand it when a community school becomes an academy then if it is a sponsored conversion (e.g. because the school is failing and deemed to require substantial investment to turn it around) then the sponsoring MAT receives additional funding.
The principle is that schools can start to be turned around before the conversion to «sponsor academy» status - the current main mechanism for addressing failure, by which schools are put under new management.
Under government plans, conversion to a sponsored academy (and the associated uncertainties around the benefits this will bring) will be seen as the last resort.