Our Church School Family

to develop ‘a vision and strategy for the

coming changes’

The role of schools with a Christian

Foundation is crucial in our society

OfSTED Performance

Section 48 Performance

Oustanding

Good

satisfactory

Inadequate

Today

All schools are facing tough decisions –

• budgets• staffing• a world where LA support is being cut

centrally

The Future with the Diocesan Board of Education

We aim to:

• facilitate stronger church school partnerships

• maintain and continue to improve standards of educational provision for all ages

• share excellence in teaching and learning, leadership and governance across the Diocese

Vision & StrategyThe Diocesan Board of Education retains statutory policy role.

• maintain our close family of Christian schools together

• schools are not isolated• facilitate the transition in as easy and cost effective

manner for our schools• minimise the burden of responsibility on individual

Governors and Governing Bodies• working together at managing the risks associated

with independence

The Vision (an illustration)An Umbrella Trading Company

formed byThe Diocesan Board of

EducationThe Board of Education still fulfils its statutory functions

School

Multi AcademyCompany

Single AcademyCompany

Service Provider(s) for HR, Payroll, Legal, Insurance and more

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Each Group Academy Trust and each school becomes a member

of the Umbrella Trading Company with the DBE and elects its Board

Benefits (1)• trading company will enable access to good quality

contracts with service provider/s for all• minimises costs and maximises mutual support • less administration and bureaucracy school level• each school / academy remains independent• schools are not isolated• enables desired degree of local and wider

collaboration without compromising local autonomy

Benefits (2)• trading company (and its profits, if any) belong to its

members• trading company acts as a mechanism for schools to

offer services to one anotherand also• can also encompass non Church schools• will maintain and enhance our Church School Family• will minimise the burden of responsibility on individual

Governors and Governing Bodies

Time Line• January 2011 – Advice to all schools on process for conversion• February 2011 – DBE commission legal opinion on options • March 2011 – Meeting with DfE in London to get approval of

principle• April 2011 – DBE set up “Task Group” to move option forward• May 2011 – Conference to launch Vision (today)• June to August 2011 – Task Group to flesh out the details. Collect

expressions of interest from Schools and clusters. Individual / group meetings with schools.

• Autumn Term 2011 – School Area meetings to update on progress and draft proposals for further consultation. Select provider(s). Initial wave of schools to commit to convert.

• Spring Term 2012 – Launch and “Go Live” with over arching company and first wave of schools and trust groups

• Summer Term 2012 – Support further schools and trust groups to convert.

If this is for the good of the school, community and

education it may be the right thing – but not if it

disadvantages someone else or somewhere else within the

community

‘Nourish those of faith,Encourage those of

other faiths,Challenge those, who

have no faith’(The late Lord Runcie)