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Sectors
Education & Children's Services
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Education and Children's
Services
Academies
The announcement of the Government's new Academies Bill signals marks a significant
change to the academy programme. Under the Bill all maintained schools will have
the opportunity to apply to become an academy.
Academies are all-ability independent state schools. Unlike other publically funded
schools, they are not maintained by a local authority, but have their capital
and running costs met by central government. TPP Law is at the vanguard of legal developments in academies. Having already helped establish academies throughout the country,
we can assist schools on the legal
requirements necessary for conversion to academy
status.
Our academies team can help clients by providing advice throughout the academy establishment
process. We are proficient
in all of the main issues including establishing the academy trust, charity issues,
property issues,
asset transfer and staffing and TUPE issues. We are already assisting a number of community and foundation schools
in their applications for academy status.
We understand that the legal documentation for establishing an academy involves
a web of relationships with responsibilities and accountabilities which need to
be properly understood. These need to be shaped to allow the creation of an excellent
learning environment both in the physical sense of school buildings and facilities,
and in the organisational sense of the governance and management of the successful
school.
For more information on how to convert to Academy status please contact
Graham Burns
on 020 7620 0888.
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