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