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Guidance on the role of the Department for Education in making commissioning decisions about academy trusts.
How maintained schools can apply to convert to academy status.
How to prepare for your school's application to convert to an academy.
What actions to take following approval of your academy conversion application.
Deadlines for schools converting to academy status.
Model document to transfer contracts and staff from a school to an academy trust as part of the academy conversion process.
Model document to help community and church schools converting to academy status transfer their school's land to the academy trust.
Guidance on the DfE funding available to academy trusts for sponsored academy projects.
What responsibilities you should transfer to your academy trust as part of your school's conversion to academy status.
Guidance for schools and local authorities on what happens if a school has a budget surplus or deficit when it converts to academy status.
Advice on what schools converting to academy status need to do to make sure they can keep using their school's land after converting.
Links to the apply to become an academy service for mainstream schools, the application process for special schools and PRUs, and information about notifying your local authority.
What final preparations you should complete before your school can open as an academy.
Information to support local authorities interested in setting up a multi-academy trust as part of a test and learn exercise in 2022 to 2023.
Statutory guidance for local authorities, under paragraph A19 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.
Formal agreements between the Department for Education (DfE), the Church of England and the Catholic Church.
Model document for schools that are converting to academy status and that won’t be able to complete land negotiations in time.
A DfE film including interviews and footage of innovative practice in the classroom.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Advice and application form for sixth-form colleges considering becoming a 16 to 19 academy.
What actions you should take in the first few months after your school opens as an academy.
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