The government stopped judging regional commissioners on how many schools in their regions were in
need of an academy trust after figures revealed far more sponsors were needed...
Not exact matches
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 i
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 i
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 i
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 i
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 i
academy status • Financial systems and contracts with staff and suppliers confirmed •
Academy registrations with exam bodies confirmed • Insurances put i
Academy registrations with exam bodies confirmed • Insurances put in place
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 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.
«Whether a school becomes an independent
academy or forms part
of an
Academies Trust, each building will
need to evidence that they have taken the responsibility to manage the properties accordingly and to meet with all necessary legislation.
Nick Blackburn, chief executive
of Heathfield
Academy Trust, said: «Catterick is an area
of local
need and North Yorkshire County Council has indicated that there is expected to be a shortfall
of 730 primary school places in the area.
Your solicitor will also
need to agree with the DfE the Memorandum and Articles
of Association that the
Academy Trust company will use.
This lack
of prescription gives
academy trusts much more autonomy in what information they maintain and, particularly for smaller Trusts, is potentially more appropriate to their
trusts much more autonomy in what information they maintain and, particularly for smaller
Trusts, is potentially more appropriate to their
Trusts, is potentially more appropriate to their
needs.
«We're going to
need tens
of thousands
of new primary places over the next few years, so it's great to see
trust's like the Sharnbrook
Academy Federation stepping up to the plate.
Alison Beane, the executive headteacher
of the Solent
Academies Trust, which is a group
of three special
needs schools in Portsmouth, was co-opted at the last election in October.
The national schools commissioner, who told ASCL delegates that the growth
of the
academies programme would
need to be managed, outlined proposals for a four - tier hierarchy
of trusts ranging from those with up to five schools to «system leaders» with 30 or more.
«But Regional Schools Commissioners will still
need to beware
of, as it were, overloading strong
academy trusts and giving them a school improvement workload they will struggle to meet,» he said.
Two years ago, Wakefield City
Academy Trust (WCAT) was named as one of five «outstanding» academy trusts to receive a share of # 10m funding to set up «high - performing academy hubs in areas having some of the greatest need&
Academy Trust (WCAT) was named as one
of five «outstanding»
academy trusts to receive a share of # 10m funding to set up «high - performing academy hubs in areas having some of the greatest need&
academy trusts to receive a share
of # 10m funding to set up «high - performing
academy hubs in areas having some of the greatest need&
academy hubs in areas having some
of the greatest
need».
The report said that while large
trusts did tend to have a higher number
of sponsored
academies and so might
need to «act more quickly» to remove a head, this didn't explain all the difference.
Reform's survey
of academy trust bosses also shows a worrying collective view about the minimum number
of schools
needed to make chains efficient, which is especially concerning in the context
of data that shows that the vast majority
of trusts have fewer than 10 schools.
«There is an urgent
need for E-Act to take action to tackle underperformance in a relatively large number
of academies in the
trust and to ensure that pupils» achievement rises to a good standard.»
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.
For example if an
academy trusts has one corporate member,
of three members, the sponsor's details may
need to be put on the register in certain circumstances.
Lizzie Rowe, chief operating officer
of the Education Fellowship, the lowest rated primary
academy trust, said that
trusts needed to be given time to make progress and that this was not always shown in immediate results.
The timetable: If thousands
of schools, many
of them primary schools, are put under a deadline to become
academies, there will
need to be hundreds more
academy trusts to accommodate them.
Ofsted said the
trust had not done enough to identify the «weaknesses and
needs»
of its
academies, and criticised leaders for failing to identify underperformance quickly enough.
The
academy trust needs to take over as the employer, so the local authority will
need to start the formal Transfer
of Undertakings (Protection
of Employment) Regulations (TUPE) process.
«Multi-academy
trusts and stand - alone
academies will work with regional schools commissioners to ensure the
needs of the local community - including high -
needs pupils - are met swiftly.»
An
academy trust has been accused
of segregating disabled pupils after announcing that it would bus children with special educational
needs and disabilities from a well - performing school to a worse school because
of limited resources.
A Department for Education spokesman said: «We
trust heads, governors and
academy trusts to plan their staffing in a way that best meets the
needs of their pupils.
For example, requiring them to be part
of an
academy trust including schools for other faiths, or showing they are opening in an area
of «social
need».
The EPI research, commissioned by the Ambition School Leadership charity, also reveals that one
of the most vulnerable groups
of pupils — those with special
needs — do not make it into leading
academy trusts in such large numbers.
But Aldridge announced last week that it will instead cut ties with IPACA, which currently operates as a single
academy trust, saying that to improve it
needed the support
of a MAT with «more resources to deploy locally».
But said: «The Trustees are working closely with the DfE and regional schools commissioner to see if the
needs of our students and staff can be best served through rebuilding the capacity at Perry Beeches The
Academy trust, or through transferring some or all
of the schools to another sponsor or sponsors.