Our Principles for Governance, Branding and Partnerships

https://www.midlandat.co.uk/governance

OUR PRINCIPLES BRANDING AND PARTNERSHIPS
The Executive and Central Team manage and coordinate the following for all our academies. Academies must at all times adhere to these:

Internal Support – managed through Central Team
External support and partnerships sourced through Central Team
School to school support – centrally sourced and coordinated
Memberships of organisations
Transition and primary liaison – centrally coordinated
Transition events
Employer partnerships and engagement – centrally coordinated
Term dates (set centrally and aligned as appropriate with Leicestershire and Warwickshire County Councils term dates)
Directed time budget
MAT calendar and INSET days
ALL MAT policies
Maximum of 80% of GAG spent on staffing
Budget and forecast process
All financial processes
Procurement
SLA
Capital spend
MAT central website and individual academy website design and format.
Centrally designed prospectus
MAT branding on all documentation.
Media relations
HR and Payroll
GDPR – DPO
Careers

Our Academies must use the same for the following:

Risk Register
Academy Scrutiny Committee and Curriculum, Quality and Achievement Committee Principal’s report template
SEF template and development plan
EVOLV (Trips and visits software management) – educational visits management and procedures
Documentation and preparation processes for accountability visits and inspections.

Our academies are expected to manage the following themselves sharing best practice wherever possible:

Implementation of policies and local systems to ensure their effective implementation.
Facilities and estates spend
Pupil Premium and catch-up funding expenditure and associated fixed term staff.
Decisions about non-staffing spend and faculty budgets.
Staff Conduct including dress code
Academy specific events, fundraising, parent voice and community relations.
Pupil uniform
Individual academy newsletters.