Sentences with phrase «number of academy trusts»

The Department for Education has written to 29 trusts about high pay in the past, however, the number of academy trusts called on explain pay levels were significantly small.

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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.

As well as the focus on a «school led system», government policy is to encourage schools to collaborate under multi-academy trusts, i.e. academy trusts which operate a number of schools.

Ormiston Academies Trust is set to spend # 1 million to improve its communications department following a number of scandals in recent years.

A trust spokesperson added that «further discussions» are under way with the DfE concerning a «small number of other AET academies, yet to be confirmed», meaning more of its schools could also be rebrokered to other academy trusts.

«We work with a number of excellent Trusts, who are focused on providing a level headed approach to the academies which they support, so we have seen first - hand how this process can and does have a positive impact.»

Addressing these concerns is particularly important given that academy trusts are educating increasing numbers of children and handling large amounts of public money, according to a report on academy trust finances published by the committee today.

«North Yorkshire County Council supports the application from Heathfield Academy Trust, which already sponsors a number of schools near Catterick and who the DfE identified as a potential sponsor for the new school in Catterick.

Whilst your solicitors will deal with the legal processes, it is the job of the Academy Trust to deal with the practical aspects of conversion, for example obtaining a new establishment number, transferring its computer licences, obtaining new branding and signage (if required) and opening a new bank account.

The extent of the deficits was revealed by BBC 5 Live Investigates and Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, has said that the numbers raise «serious concerns about the accountability» of academy trusts, which currently run more than half of England's secondary schools.

These documents are its constitution and set out the number of rules regarding what the Academy Trust can and can not do and how it must operate.

Dan Styles, the Trust Improvement Partner at Wakefield Academies Trust, is very aware of these attitudinal fluctuations and the school has introduced a number of interventions to limit the dip as much as possible.

Tim Coulson, Chief Executive of Samuel Ward Academy Trust is one of a number of senior MAT execs and head teachers who contributed to the research.

The number of academies and multi academy trusts (MATs) increases on a monthly basis.

Delta Academies Trust, formerly the School Partnership Trust Academies, lost more than 100 staff last year and removed a number of creative subjects from its curriculum to prioritise the more academic subjects found in the EBacc.

Over the past year, 1,120 schools converted to academy status and the number of multi-academy trusts registered to take over schools increased from 800 to around 1,000.

Cleland, in a statement sent to Schools Week, said: «The education sector is facing a number of significant financial challenges across the country with all schools, academies and multi-academy trusts being affected.

We have regular joint meetings for the Heads and Chairs of the NET Academies, which now number six in total, and we have our paperwork sorted, including Trust policies and proformas for all documentation required by the Trust.

The Shared Learning Trust, formerly known as Barnfield Academy Trust, last week said it was closing its studio school in Luton after «carefully weighing up its long - term viability» in the face of dwindling pupil numbers.

I recently spoke with an academy trust chief executive whose schools had a ridiculous number of commissioner officials and Ofsted in at the same time.

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.

In September, the government finally published data on the numbers of schools transferred between academy trusts, and the cost of re-brokering.

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.

Ofsted is already investigating claims that a number of schools in academy trusts in Norfolk were given advance warning of when inspections were going to be carried out.

«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.»

Of the 24 free schools opening this month, about six are being set up by faith groups, a similar number are parent - or teacher - led and five will be run by trusts already running academies.

The responsibility will fall to the person within the academy trusts who has company secretarial responsibilities, which for a number of trustwill be the business manager or bursar.

The trust has also been criticised over the number of pupils temporarily excluded from two of three of its academies, which Farrow said was «too high».

Some staff have taken secondments at other schools in the Tudor Grange Academy Trust and in local schools outside the trust, with the intention of returning once numbers increTrust and in local schools outside the trust, with the intention of returning once numbers incretrust, with the intention of returning once numbers increased.

Stockwood Park academy and Chalk Hills academy, both in Bedfordshire and both run by the Shared Learning Trust, also had large numbers of pupils move to the Studio School Luton, but dwindling pupil numbers forced its closure in March last year.

The notice is the most recent sent to an academy trust following a significant upswing in the number of financial notices to improve sent out in 2016.

The measure, introduced by the Burnt Mill Academy Trust which took over at the start of this month, is designed to raise the number of pupils achieving strong passes in English and maths GCSE above the national average and achieve a positive Progress 8 score, from a current position of -0.09.

In recent years, the number of schools transferring from one academy trust to another has rocketed — from 26 in 2014, to 131 last year.

Labour had argued that the academies programme was already hitting problems, with a number of large - scale trusts being sanctioned for failing to improve results fast enough.

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

Based on more than 70 interviews with headteachers and academy trust chief executives, as well as a «supply projection» based on the latest pupil and workforce data, it predicts a future shortage of between 14,000 to 19,000 leaders sparked by increasing pupil numbers, retirements, and school leaders leaving the profession early.

This is where a number of schools in an academy trust are inspected as a group because of concerns raised about performance.

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Ms Bexon - Smith was executive principal of the Tudor Grange Academies Trust, which runs a number of academies in the west Academies Trust, which runs a number of academies in the west academies in the west Midlands.

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There are a number of requirements to be aware of, namely the board must include two elected parent trustees (where the trustees have not appointed local governing bodies or there is no provision made for at least two parent local governors on each local governing body), no more than a third of the board can be employees of the academy trust and the number of trustees who are local authority associated persons must not represent 19.9 % or more of the total number of trustees.

Outside of work, she supports a number of social enterprises in developing their growth plans and also sits as a non-executive director for the Rosedale - Hewens Academy Trust, a collection of schools that serve the young people in the area she grew up in.

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.

Fears about the availability of good sponsors for increasing numbers of academies has led to speculation that the government may look to the 16 to 19 institutions — 90 per cent of which are rated good or outstanding by Ofsted — to lead multi-academy trusts.

Nigel Ward, chief executive of the Northern Schools Trust, said: «While we are disappointed to have reached this situation due to continued falling pupil numbers, we are very grateful to the Department for Education and local authority for their support to keep The Kingsway Academy open until the end of the next academic year.

Thirty - two applications were initially received for the post and Ms Spielman won out against a number of high - profile candidates — reportedly including Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, and Toby Salt, chief executive of the Ormiston academies trust.