{"id":6680,"date":"2022-05-10T16:37:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T15:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/supportforschools\/?page_id=6680"},"modified":"2024-12-09T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T12:01:14","slug":"trust-schools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/school-effectiveness\/governance\/federation-academisation-and-partnership-working\/trust-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A trust school is a foundation school. Some schools&nbsp;will need to acquire&nbsp;foundation status in order to become a trust school, meaning they will take on specific responsibilities which have traditionally been carried out by the Local Authority,&nbsp;including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Responsibility for overseeing admissions and appeals processes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Specific requirement for the make-up of the governing board<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Becoming the legal employers of all staff<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Managing the school premises.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where Trust Schools are different from other maintained schools is that they are supported by a charitable trust. The Trust is made up of partners, community organisations and sometimes businesses, which share and support the strategic direction of the school or schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/document\/trust-schools\/\">Guide to trust schools<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trust school is a foundation school. Some schools&nbsp;will need to acquire&nbsp;foundation status in order to become a trust school, meaning they will take on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"parent":6099,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-6680","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 20:24:08","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\/6680","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=6680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28213,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/support-schools-settings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6680\/revisions\/28213"}],"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=6680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}