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Academy Sponsorship
Dominic Herrington Director, Academies Group
The IAA National Conference4 July 2013
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Academies now: key facts and figures731 of the 3049 open academies are sponsored:
303 primary schools 422 secondary schools 6 special
8% of primary schools are open as academies (11% are open or in the pipeline to become academies)
51% of secondary schools are open as academies (60% are open or in the pipeline to become academies)
Sponsored academies deliver faster and better attainment than maintained schools in similar positions
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We track sponsors by type
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Academy sponsorship is changing…
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More diverse in nature and more school sponsorship
What are sponsors’ school improvement and operating models? Moving to ‘industrial scale’
Growing understanding of the model in the education service
Stronger steers from the DfE (pause, geography, sustainability)
The number of school sponsors is growing
Currently, 169 schools are sponsoring either open or pipeline academies, compared to 43 two years ago:
60 primary schools 97 secondary schools 4 special schools 8 Independent schools
35 Teaching Schools are approved academy sponsors 96 of NLEs’ schools are approved academy sponsors
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Lord Nash, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools
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“…I want to see more outstanding schools sponsoring weaker schools. I want to see strong multi-academy trusts and secondary schools doing more, in particular, to engage with their feeder primaries and create local clusters to improve performance.”
What is our strategy?
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Our strategy has three parts
1. Recruit more sponsors
Encourage outstanding converters to become sponsors
Run recruitment events every month
Recruit business background Ambassadors
Recruit a new Schools Commissioner
New Sponsor Capacity Fund
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Our strategy has three parts…
2. Ensure sponsors are high quality
Take a risk based approach to assessing sponsor capacity
Audit Diocesan quality and capacity
Develop a mentoring scheme for new/growing sponsors
‘Troubleshoot’ issues within sponsor organisations
Ensure we have high quality sponsors to deliver the Targeted Basic Need (TBN) programme
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Our strategy has three parts…
3. Intervene in failing sponsors
Issue Pre-warning Notices early in autumn term if needed
Rigorously analyse major sponsors’ school improvement approaches and capacity
Continue to monitor the impact of PWNs and WNs
EFA intervention framework
Explore intervening at the chain/sponsor level
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Some key target areas
LeedsHampshireKentBuckinghamshireOxfordshireNorth YorkshireWakefieldRotherhamSurrey
StaffordshireCornwallNorfolkDevonNorthumberlandEssexIsle of WightPlymouth
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We are here to help!
Dominic HerringtonDirector, Academies [email protected]
Henry WatsonDeputy Director, Sponsor Relationship & Development [email protected]
www.education.gov.uk/academies
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