{"id":6485,"date":"2022-05-04T14:58:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T13:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/supportforschools\/?page_id=6485"},"modified":"2024-12-09T11:55:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T11:55:47","slug":"academies-and-multi-academy-trusts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/school-effectiveness\/governance\/federation-academisation-and-partnership-working\/academies-and-multi-academy-trusts\/","title":{"rendered":"Academies and multi-academy trusts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An academy is an independent state-funded school. This means it\u2019s funded directly by the government (through the Education and Skills Funding Agency, ESFA) rather than by the local authority as maintained schools are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Devon has a long history of partnership working, the Governance Consultancy team is experienced in assisting and supporting boards if you are thinking of collaborating with another school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are considering converting to academy status you need to inform the LA and the Diocese (if applicable) early on in the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Single academy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not all schools are able to convert as single academies. To be able to convert as a single academy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>your latest Ofsted rating must be at least good<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>your pupils\u2019 attainment and progress must be high<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>you will need to prove that your schools\u2019 finances are healthy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you convert as a single academy,&nbsp;the Department for Education will expect you to support at least&nbsp;one other local school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Multi-academy trust<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>All academies in a multi-academy trust are governed by a single trust and a single board of trustees.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The academy trust can establish a separate governing body for each of its academies. These are called local governing bodies. The board of trustees can then delegate some of its functions to the local governing bodies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To convert as a multi-academy trust you can either join an existing trust or you can work with other schools to set up a new trust.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To convert as a multi-academy trust, each school in your proposed trust needs to submit a separate application and each of the existing governing boards must pass a resolution to convert to become an academy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As part of your application you will also need to provide evidence of how the stronger schools in your proposed chain will help the weaker schools to improve.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/devoncc.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/s\/PublicDocs\/Education\/EZWKz6DYudRDoAVy95HGrwoBj-uyASl0kEsq8d-lYjszOw?e=HO8JEE\" rel=\"noopener\">Taking the next step &#8211; forming or joining a multi-academy trust<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ascl.org.uk\/ASCL\/media\/ASCL\/guidance_paper_taking_the_next_step_forming_a_multi_academy_trust_12603.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">Forming a multi-academy trust<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bdes.org.uk\/uploads\/7\/2\/8\/5\/72851667\/ngaguidance-paper_staying-in-control-of-your-schools-destiny-joining-a-mat_nov-2016.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">Joining a multi-academy trust<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An academy is an independent state-funded school. This means it\u2019s funded directly by the government (through the Education and Skills Funding Agency, ESFA) rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"parent":6099,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6485","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 17:21:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28199,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6485\/revisions\/28199"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}