Sentences with phrase «single academy trusts»

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The move further questions the viability of single academy trusts, leading one policy expert to claim more will have no choice but to join MATs.

In case anyone's interested, this comes from the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts report (https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmpubacc/760/760.pdf) «In November 2017, ESFA wrote to 29 single academy trusts where a Trustee was paid in excess of # 150,000, requesting justification for these significant salaries.

One question from the above — it refers to the ESFA deeming that 2/3 of responses from single academy trusts were unsatisfactory (when asked to justify pay over # 150,000).

Model funding agreement for single academy trusts establishing a university technical college (UTC) or studio school.

Aldridge Education was established as a national multi-academy trust by the Aldridge Foundation in 2016, taking over responsibility from the Foundation for its family of non-selective academy schools and colleges, some of which are part of the MAT whilst others are currently Single Academy Trusts sponsored by Aldridge Education.

In both circumstances we recommend a mapping exercise, picking out out the existing provision for maintained schools, single academy trusts and multi-academy trusts operating locally.

Even after accounting for sponsored academies, more heads left MATs with between six and 30 schools than in single academy trusts.

The same argument could be applied to single academy trusts although the chance of longer term sustainabiltiy here is perhaps much lower.

There are currently 853 Starter trusts, 150 Established Trusts, 17 Regional Trusts and 11 System trusts, as well as 1,762 single academy trusts (SATs).

In single academy trusts, the governing body acts on behalf of the trust board.

Both single academy trusts and MATs have an overarching board of trustees.

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.

Kerry Ace, CIPFA's expert on academies, examines the role of a head teacher as an accounting officer in a single academy trust

But they saved more when they belonged to a single academy trust, at # 1,183 per pupil compared to # 1,255 in a MAT — a saving of # 72.

Gillian Allcroft (pictured), deputy chief executive of the National Governance Association, said interim boards often drove rapid improvement, but said it was «highly unusual» for a single academy trust, such as Parkfield, to delegate all the powers of its trustees to a new committee.

«As a single academy trust we would establish formal links with local 11 to 16 schools to develop shared approaches to quality assurance, shared staffing, professional development and resources,» the consultation said.

Of the academies that had been re-brokered since September 2014, 68 had gone from a multi-academy trust to another multi-academy trust and 51 and gone from a single academy trust to a multi-academy trust, he said.

It is particularly keen to look at arrangements where a cluster of schools works together in a single Academy Trust.

We opened our first Academy in September 2008 in Darwen, Lancashire, and there are currently four schools in the North West in our MAT with another two in the South East and one in London, where we also sponsor a Single Academy Trust.

A Single Academy Trust jointly sponsored by the University of Brighton, Lewes DC, Veolia and Aldridge Education

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».

Not exact matches

With this in mind and whatever the governance structure in place (single converter or a more complex multi academy trust model), it is essential that governing body members understand their role in ensuring that risk and risk management is taken seriously and is part of their accountability to parents, the wider public and other stakeholders.

Just over 300 multi-academy trusts (MATS) and 543 single - academy trusts (SATs) responded to the survey which looked at reasons for conversion, financial regulation and how much trusts charge academies.

For any small school the challenges that come with more regulation are impractical to undertake as a single entity; they will be much better placed to join a Multi Academy Trust and share in the central support functions they can supply.

But the academy trusts asked to explain their levels of pay, where bosses earn over # 150,000, have only been small, single - school trusts.

Overall, 165 schools passed from one academy trust to another last year, although many of those were in single - academy trusts that were «consolidated» into multi-academy trusts.

A DfE survey of 326 MATs and 542 single - academy trusts (SATs) found that academies understand the benefits of collaboration.

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Wigan UTC was also originally in its own single - academy trust, but left to join Bright Futures Educational Trust in March trust, but left to join Bright Futures Educational Trust in March Trust in March 2015.

Outlines routes to a new employer — a transfer to academy status, a transfer from a single academy to a multi-academy trust, a transfer to a new multi-academy trust and a note about free schools.

Costs are also not further reduced for individual schools as a MAT grows, said the report, which examined the cost savings and «economies of scale» of belonging to a local authority, single - academy trust or multi-academy trust.

The time is now right to reassess secondary provision in the town and the Inspiration Trust is now consulting on a proposal to merge Great Yarmouth Charter Academy and Trafalgar College to form a single enlarged high school for urban Great Yarmouth.

This allows you to see which academies are within each single or multi-academy Trust, which schools are supported by which approved sponsor, and, if the school is a converter or sponsored academy, which school was the predecessor school.

Of 16,000 school business managers, a sample survey by NASBM showed that 10 per cent were senior executives of large schools or multiple - academy trusts (MATs)-- while the majority (50 per cent) held «varying degrees of influence» in leadership roles within single schools, and a large proportion (40 per cent) were in smaller - scale administrative roles.

She pointed out that the Education and Skills Funding Agency had already written to numerous single - academy trusts telling them to justify any pay above # 150,000, and had found two thirds of responses unsatisfactory, albeit without revealing what it intends to do about this.

As around half of academies are already in multi-academy trusts [MATs: charities with more than one school] we can take an approximation and suggest around # 1.25 bn of those reserves are in single academies.

The latter comment appears to be another swipe at trusts Wilshaw has already singled out for underperformance, including E-ACT, the School Partnership Trust Academies (SPTA) and Academies Enterprise Trust.

A Department for Education survey of 326 MATs and 542 single - academy trusts (SATs) found that academies strongly understand the benefits of collaboration.