Sentences with phrase «control of the academy trust»

Since September 2010, 2,949 Primary Schools have become academies, 943 of which are «sponsored academies» — with sponsors including businesses, universities, other schools, faith groups or voluntary groups, who have majority control of the academy trust.

Not exact matches

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 further signs of the creeping influence of the Church in the education system, a Church of England - led academy trust in Newcastle is set to assume control of four schools with no religious character after it was announced that they will soon be merging with a Church of England primary school.

The government insists that in giving NHS trusts and schools more freedom to govern their affairs, as in the case of foundation hospitals and city academies, they are reducing Whitehall control and increasing participation of service users and local people.

An academy trust is a charitable company responsible for the running of the academy, which has control over the land and the other assets.

For example, a small state controlled school who is contemplating becoming an academy would need to first consider whether they would want to be part of a Trust with other schools or do they stand alone?

The Academies Financial Handbook of 2014 required a trust's internal control framework to include preparation of timely monthly management accounts (including income and expenditure reports on an accruals basis, cash flow forecasts and balance sheets as appropriate).

Schools do indeed change Ofsted categories and it might be as a result of factors completely outside the control of the operator, be it LA or academy trust — however you only have to look at the trove of SchoolsWeek stories about how an academy has dropped a grade or two to see all the comments about how this shows the academy programme is to blame.

But Morgan's hopes were quickly dashed when the NASUWT general secretary, Chris Keates, followed her at the podium and asked Morgan to reconsider the plan to move 16,000 schools in England from local authority oversight to control by chains of academy trusts by 2022.

Firstly, the approval of academies converting from maintained authority control to join a multi-academy trust (MAT) or become a stand - alone academy.

Whereas currently I, and the governors of my school, have total control over these areas, once placed within an academy trust these decisions would be dictated to us.

«I have now reviewed the position further and I am pleased to inform you that I am content that the conditions are all met and that I am satisfied that the trust has in place the required financial controls and processes to comply with the requirements of the funding agreement and academies financial handbook.»