UKAT Additional Information booklet 2022_2 single pages fina

How will we manage school and Trust finances?

Our diversity as a Trust enables UKAT to offer students a unique educational experience where students feel encouraged, supported and nurtured to be the best that they can be. Joining the Trust Joining UKAT will follow the usual conversion or merger processes, depending on the circumstances of your school/academy. These processes usually take approximately six months to complete, and UKAT will support you through them, including the drafting of the application to the RSC to convert or merge, and running the community and TUPE consultations required during the process. What are the TUPE measures UKAT expects to propose? Whilst Multi-Academy Trust is not bound by national pay and conditions, UKAT adheres to the Burgundy Book, the School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document, NJC conditions and the Green Book. As such, while there may be some TUPE measures depending on the circumstances of each school/academy most likely, for example, to bring all academies in-line with the UKAT pay date each month), we do not expect any significant changes to pay and conditions. We will work with the current employer, HR advisors, unions and staff to ensure that this is the case during the process of joining the Trust.

As part of UKAT, each school/academy contributes a top-slice, dependent on the bespoke service level agreements it opts into from the choice of Trust’s central functions. As part of joining UKAT, we will offer places on our finance committee for your school/ academy finance lead. How much autonomy does UKAT provide? UKAT offers collaboration, not prescription. We offer choice, not decisions made for you. To support this, we have ensured that: • Each UKAT academy has its own Principal, responsible for establishing the vision and ethos of each academy within the UKAT values • Each UKAT academy has their own local governing committee, and practices local accountability • Each UKAT academy is different in its approach to learning • UKAT’s Scheme of Delegation preserves the decision-making power of our schools. For example, it reserves the right, at academy-level, of approval of academy- level policies, appointments to the central team, appointment of the Principal, and more besides.

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