Services
High quality support is provided in four key areas, including for the development of multi-academy trusts, particularly for forming, growing and joining trusts, as well as for reviewing their performance. Additionally, there is support for school quality assurance, self-evaluation and improvement planning processes together with regular school improvement partner reviews.
Excellent advice is provided for trustees and governors completing CEO and headteacher performance management, ensuring clear evidence of progress towards existing targets and realistic new objectives. Free schools are supported in both the pre- and post-opening phases, including developing detailed business cases and applications.
- All schools expected to be in strong trusts, or have plans to join or form one, by 2030
- The current options for maintained schools and single academy trusts
- How existing trusts can grow in size, including through mergers with other trusts
- Developing growth strategies and plans
- Identifying potential partner trusts and schools
- Making an application to the DfE trust capacity fund
- Developing trust partnership agreements with schools
- Due diligence on behalf of trusts and schools
- Reviewing trust performance
- Trust quality descriptors and trust development statements
- Evaluating the impact of trust improvement and growth plans
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- Based on the current Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (EIF)
- Support for schools in all Ofsted categories
- Regular school improvement partner support
- Quality assurance of the main Ofsted school aspects
- Developing monitoring and self-evaluation processes
- Writing robust self-evaluation summaries and improvement plans
- Leadership development, including reviews of senior and middle leadership
- Supporting governors with the recruitment of headteachers
- Governance and pupil premium reviews
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CEO and headteacher performance management
- External adviser in primary, secondary, special and alternative provision phases
- Full involvement of trustees, governors and CEO or headteacher
- Support for preparing all documents
- Evidence of progress towards existing objectives
- Writing realistic new objectives with suggested performance indicators
- Annual and mid-year reviews of performance
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- Developing strong applications for free schools in the primary, secondary, sixth form, alternative provision and special phases
- Developing University Technology Colleges (UTCs) and mathematics schools
- Pre-opening, developing the education brief and other plans and policies
- Preparation for the pre-opening Ofsted inspection
- Post-opening, reviews of performance based on the current Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (EIF)
- Developing the business case for making changes to academies, free schools and UTCs
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