1 academy conversion john edmunds academy converters division
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An Academy is …
Academies are publicly-funded independent schools that provide a first-class education.
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Broad political support
“[An academy] belongs not to some remote bureaucracy, not to the rulers of government, local or national, but to itself, for itself. The school is in charge of its own destiny. This gives it pride and purpose. And most of all, freed from the extraordinarily debilitating and often, in the worst sense, politically correct interference from state or municipality, academies have just one thing in mind, something shaped not by political prejudice but by common sense: what will make the school excellent.”
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Routes to Academy Status
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Schools that are ‘performing well’
Can convert to Academy
status
Schools that are not ‘performing well’ but are
above ‘the floor’
Can convert in a chain with a stronger
school
Schools that are below the
‘floor’
Can convert in a Multi-Academy Trust (chain)
with a strong school
Continue to be tackled through Sponsored
approach
Worst performing
schools
Academy Constitution
• Company– Registered at companies house.– Limited by guarantee.
• Charity– Not for profit.
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Academy Trust
• Funding Agreement– With the secretary of state– For 7 years, rolling thereafter
• Articles of Association– Sets out the objects of the Trust (what it exists
to do)
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Academy Trusts
• Members
– Think: Shareholders– Accountable for the
Trust to the Secretary of State
• Governors
– Think: Directors– Run the Academy on a
day to day basis– Accountable to the
Members
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Academy Trust Governors
• Those appointed by the Members• Head Teacher/ Principal• At least two parent governors• No more than one third Academy employees
(including the Head Teacher/ Principal)• Co-opted governors (no limit, but any employees
count to the one third limit)
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Academies – the money
•General Annual Grant (GAG), including:•Local Authority Central Spend Equivalent Grant (LACSEG)
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Lord Nash – Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools
• Two years as one of the Department’s non-Executive Directors;
• Academy Sponsor (Future Academy Trust)
• Note: very interested in Governance
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Umbrella Trusts
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Umbrella Trust
£ Contribution
Purchasing Shared Services
School Improvement
Multi-Academy TrustMulti-Academy Funding
AgreementMembersDirectors
Academy AFunding Agreement
ArticlesMembersDirectors
Academy BFunding Agreement
ArticlesMembersDirectors
Conversion process 1
• Application (make an offer)
• Academy Order (offer accepted)
• Conversion Grant (special offer)
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Conversion process 2
• Engage solicitors (land searches etc)
• Funding Agreement (exchange of contracts)
• Conversion date (moving in)
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Thank you
0114 274 2396
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