Sentences with phrase «by academy trusts»

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.

When schools become academies, they are overseen by academy trusts, and increasing numbers are part of chains, otherwise known as multi-academy trusts (Mats).

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.

The scale of the deficits accumulated by academy trusts was revealed in a Freedom Of Information request obtained by BBC 5 live Investigates.

Provided the trading subsidiary is 100 % owned by the academy trusts then the subsidiary's PSC register will only need to disclose details of the parent academy trust.

But formal arrangements encouraged by the government or by some academy trusts and school heads via regular parental contributions risk shifting the responsibility for funding education from the state to philanthropy.

The Academies Financial Handbook places emphasis on the need for the accounting officer to manage carefully relationships with connected parties to avoid real or perceived conflicts of interest and to ensure that restrictions placed on trade that can be undertaken by academy trusts with connected parties are complied with.

There is, once again, commonality with the challenges faced by academy trusts and schools who are facing similar deliberations about the management, co-ordination and reporting of «quality» related activities.

The Prime Minister is proposing that all schools graded «requires improvement» would have new leadership imposed on them and be taken over by an academy trust if they do not have a credible plan to raise them to «good» or «outstanding».

A survey commissioned by academy trust Bohunt Education Trust (BET) has found that only 10 per cent of people believe that children today have more outdoor education opportunities than they had in their school years, with nearly three ‑ quarters of people (71 per cent) blaming cost as the biggest factor stopping children experiencing outdoor education.

Seek an early actuarial valuation and agree a repayment term Step 3 — Setting up an Academy Trust and Funding Agreement • This is the stage at which all legal documents need to be agreed with the DfE • The Academy Trust has to be registered with Companies House • Transfer or leasing arrangements for school land needs to be finalised • Completion of TUPE process • Governors complete and close consultation process • Funding Agreement signed by Academy Trust and Secretary of State • Academy opening date set Step 4 — Pre-opening • All CRB checks completed prior to transfer to academy status • Financial systems and contracts with staff and suppliers confirmed • Academy registrations with exam bodies confirmed • Insurances put in place

Over 60 schools branded «inadequate» by Ofsted 17 months ago have still not been taken over by an academy trust, despite new laws requiring the government to make it happen.

They're run by an academy trust which employs the staff.

And this continues under the sponsored - academy model, where failing schools are taken over and run by an academy trust.

This included requiring Durand to re-tender contracts when they expired and to cancel immediately «obligations incurred by the Academy Trust when it became a party to the contract between London Horizons Limited and GMG».

And this continues under the sponsored - academy model, where failing schools are taken over and run by an academy trust, usually under a new principal and governing body.

Not exact matches

Would you want to trust a parenting book written by people who have no related degrees and whose adult children have actively estranged themselves from their parents and that the American Academy of Pediatrics has made a statement against?

The church building still remains, but is now owned and operated by the Carlton Academy PTA from Nottingham and is now used as an outdoor education facility for their pupils and those from other schools in the Redhill Academy Trust

Other trusted volumes include the American Academy of Pediatrics» «Caring for your Baby and Young Child,» and the year - by - year series of child development books by Ames, Ilg and Haber.

Joined at the event by Dr. Sandra Hassink, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and by Jessica Donze Black, head of the Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project at the Pew Charitable Trusts, Vilsack movingly described how, as the son of a drug - and alcohol - addicted adoptive mother, he was shamed for being overweight which in turn impacted his performance in school.

But more important is the question of trust and how that is compromised by the academy's acceptance of funding from the dairy industry.

The move is the culmination of a long campaign by secularists, who first succeeded in getting creationism banned from all future free schools, then future stand - alone academies and then finally all future multi-academy trusts.

Toby's research has been externally funded by the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, AHRC, ESRC, Nuffield Foundation and the McDougall Trust.

Tony Blair's personal fundraiser Lord Levy, Des Smith, a head teacher and member of the specialist schools and academies trust, and businessman Sir Christopher Evans who lent Labour # 1 million before the last election, were arrested by the police as part of the cross-party probe.

As a consequence of this, the Methodist Church was required by the DfE to set up an Academy umbrella, the Methodist Academies and Schools Trust (MAST), or else lose control of its schools that become Academies.

In total, MPs found 12 cases where those connected to academy trusts had benefited personally from contracts awarded by the schools.

In another case an academies trust paid out almost half a million pounds to companies owned by trustees and executives of the trust.

The Campaign launched in June 2013, and is also already being supported by the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches and a number of local campaign groups.

This research was a one - year study, published in 2008 by the Health Economics Research Group and RAND Europe and commissioned by the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.

A study conducted by researchers from the University of Liverpool, The Reader and the Royal Liverpool University Hospitals Trust, and funded by the British Academy, has found that shared reading (SR) can be a useful therapy for chronic pain sufferers.

The ICGC Prostate Cancer UK group — funded by Cancer Research UK, the Dallaglio Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, the Academy of Finland and others — is examining how the disease evolves in patients to help develop approaches for personalised medicine, tailored to the genetic makeup of each person's cancer.

Their study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was funded by the Darwin Trust, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the European Commission.

The den visit was part of the ongoing long - term ecological study on snow leopards in Mongolia's South Gobi province that's been conducted by the Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation, Snow Leopard Trust, and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences since 2008.

First held in 1949, the 70th Annual State Science Day is sponsored by: The Ohio Academy of Science, American Electric Power, Battelle, Ethicon, The Ohio Environmental Education Fund, The Ohio Tuition Trust Authority and The Ohio State University.

Sydney Brenner Fellowships (suspended) The Sydney Brenner Fellowships, administered by the Academy and supported by the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust (OMT).

«Use of neuraminidase inhibitors in influenza» will be published by the Academy of Medical Sciences and the Wellcome Trust at 00:01 UK time on Thursday 8 October 2015, which is also when the embargo will lift.

Those schools that do not yet have academy status attended the session presented by Tom Rees, headteacher and director at Northampton Primary Academy Trust academy status attended the session presented by Tom Rees, headteacher and director at Northampton Primary Academy Trust Academy Trust (NPAT).

A thousand pounds worth of equipment is now available on loan to pupils at Rockwood Academy and Nansen Primary School, both run by CORE Education Trust.

Twelve months ago, he was tasked with reducing the Trust's IT infrastructure spend by 40 % across all 14 academies, no mean feat by any standard.

The reception was attended by 150 business experts and representatives from academy trusts, who were encouraged to consider the full spectrum of ways they could work together to improve school standards.

A CHANGE IN CULTURE Other seminar sessions included one delivered by Cathie Paine, deputy chief executive of REAch2 Academy Trust.

Under the umbrella The Umbrella Trust (UT) model means each academy is a separate standalone academy owned by a separate academy trust comTrust (UT) model means each academy is a separate standalone academy owned by a separate academy trust comtrust company.

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

An academy trust and a glass company were jointly prosecuted by the HSE after an investigation found they put employees at unnecessary risk.

In response to a freedom of information (FoI) request submitted by the Local Schools Network, the Department for Education (DfE) has revealed it spent over # 3 million to transfer 23 academies to new trusts.

His session started by reminding the audience that despite recent debate in the press, the objective of academies and MATs remains the same: to create a world - class Trust, providing children with an outstanding education for generations to come.

«Whether by founding or developing academy trusts, joining governing bodies to provide oversight and encouragement, or providing careers advice and mentoring, I am today calling for more business leaders to play their part and join the schools revolution.»

Another motivational session was delivered by Rob Tarn, the regional chief executive and national leader of education at the high - performing Outwood Grange Academy Trust.

Whilst this might not have been an issue for schools becoming academies on their own (as a single academy trust) this is becoming more of an issue for multi ‑ academy trusts and particularly for sponsored academies who may be reluctant to inherit either crumbling buildings or new buildings commissioned by a local authorities without a full set of warranties.

Recommended workshops on Wednesday 18th include: «How to make cost savings and make your budget go further» by the TES Foundation; «Exploiting the opportunity for change within the Finance Function, when creating or growing a Multi Academy Trust» by Will Jordan of PD Financials; and» Simplifying procurement - a master class in procuring and practical everyday top tips» by ESPO.