Transparency data

Academy trusts: late financial returns 2018 to 2019

Published 14 October 2019

Applies to England

1. Introduction

During the academic year 2018 to 2019, ESFA required academy trusts to submit the following financial returns by the deadlines listed below.

Return	Submission deadline
Land and buildings collection tool	5 November 2018
Financial statements	31 December 2018
Accounts return	21 January 2019
Budget forecast return outturn	21 May 2019
Budget forecast return three-year	30 July 2019

Submitting financial returns on time is an essential requirement of the Academies Financial Handbook. Compliance with the financial accountability and assurance framework allows ESFA to oversee the financial health of the sector and provide assurance to Parliament and the public about how public money is spent.

The vast majority of academy trusts submitted their financial returns on time, but in order to improve compliance with the submission deadlines and, in fairness to the trusts who do submit their returns on time, we have a policy of naming those academy trusts who were late with two or more of the above deadlines. This was explained in the letter from the ESFA chief executive to all academy trusts on 15 March 2019, which reminded trusts of the importance of timely submissions of financial returns and stated that we would name those that failed to submit returns on time on two or more occasions.

2. List of trusts

The following 43 academy trusts were late submitting two or more financial returns in the 2018 to 2019 academic year:

Trust Name	Company number	Land and buildings collection tool	#Financial statements	Accounts return	Budget forecast return outturn	Budget forecast return three-year
Amaya Trust	9155473		Late	Late
Astrea Academy Trust	9791051		Late	Late
Bradfield School	8265058		Late	Late
Chapel Street Community Schools Trust	7885963				Late	Late
Chester Diocesan Academies Trust	8451787		Late	Late
Chetwynde School Limited	8963816		Late	Late		Late
Create Partnership Trust	10318212		Late	Late
Derby Manufacturing UTC	8289534		Late	Late	Late
East London Science School Trust	7962059	Late			Late
Eaton Bray Academy	7556185				Late	Late
Equa Multi Academy Trust	7452837		Late		Late
Fulham Boys School Limited	7650064	Late	Late
Gilsland Church of England Primary School	8047328		Late	Late		Late
Hadlow Rural Community School Limited	7645462		Late	Late
Harborne Academy	7310176				Late	Late
Leger Education Trust	7736364				Late	Late
Ludlow Junior School	8291623	Late	Late	Late
Maghull High School	7767222	Late			Late
Mitton Manor Primary Academy	8792831	Late			Late
Neston High School	8100578	Late			Late
Parmiter's School	7662765	Late	Late
Peaslake Free School Limited	7925067			Late	Late
Quaerere Academies Trust	6221748				Late	Late
S. Peter's Collegiate Church of England Academy Trust	8172888	Late	Late
Sail Academy Trust	11099763		Late	Late
Shipston High School	8174462	Late			Late
Southend High School for Girls Academy Trust	7487455	Late			Late
Southfield Primary School	8252316				Late	Late
St Luke's Church of England School	7451568	Late			Late
St Patrick's Catholic Academy Trust	8379733		Late	Late
Steiner Academy Exeter	7956691				Late	Late
Steiner Academy Frome	8102584		Late	Late
Stratton Education Trust	7798627	Late			Late
The Aylesbury Vale Academy	6745367	Late	Late	Late
The Bishop Fraser Trust	11005401		Late	Late
The Bishop Wheeler Catholic Academy Trust	8399801		Late			Late
The Cedars Academy Trust	8168042		Late	Late
The Lubavitch Multi-academy Trust	11211005	Late	Late	Late		Late
The Thomas Cowley High School Ltd	8149761	Late			Late
The Villages' Multi-academy Trust	10765135		Late	Late
Tower Hamlets Enterprise Academy Ltd	8632527		Late		Late
University of Wolverhampton Multi Academy Trust	8255492		Late	Late
Wolds Learning Partnership	10518602		Late	Late