Transcript DfE Template (Arial) v1.0 April 2012

Academy Sponsorship
Dominic Herrington
Director, Academies Group
The IAA National Conference
4 July 2013
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Academies now: key facts and figures
731 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
3.
Academy sponsorship is changing…
 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)
4.
The number of school sponsors is
growing
Currently, 169 schools are sponsoring either open or pipeline
academies, compared to 43 two years ago:
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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
5.
Lord Nash, Parliamentary Under
Secretary of State for Schools
“…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.”
6.
What is our strategy?
7.
Our strategy has three parts
1. Recruit more sponsors
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Encourage outstanding converters to become sponsors
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Run recruitment events every month
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Recruit business background Ambassadors
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Recruit a new Schools Commissioner
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New Sponsor Capacity Fund
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Our strategy has three parts…
2. Ensure sponsors are high quality
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Take a risk based approach to assessing sponsor capacity
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Audit Diocesan quality and capacity
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Develop a mentoring scheme for new/growing sponsors
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‘Troubleshoot’ issues within sponsor organisations
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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
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Issue Pre-warning Notices early in autumn term if needed
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Rigorously analyse major sponsors’ school improvement
approaches and capacity
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Continue to monitor the impact of PWNs and WNs
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EFA intervention framework
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Explore intervening at the chain/sponsor level
10.
Some key target areas
Leeds
Hampshire
Kent
Buckinghamshire
Oxfordshire
North Yorkshire
Wakefield
Rotherham
Surrey
Staffordshire
Cornwall
Norfolk
Devon
Northumberland
Essex
Isle of Wight
Plymouth
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We are here to help!
Dominic Herrington
Director, Academies Group
[email protected]
Henry Watson
Deputy Director, Sponsor Relationship & Development Division
[email protected]
www.education.gov.uk/academies
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