Guidance

Church academies: model documents

Model documents to help church schools converting to academies, plus supporting documents.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 18 April 2013
• Last updated: 18 September 2023 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Church of England academies: model articles of association

MS Word Document, 195 KB

Church of England academies: model lease

MS Word Document, 260 KB

Church of England academies: supplemental agreement

MS Word Document, 115 KB

Catholic academies model articles of association

MS Word Document, 84.2 KB

Catholic academies: scheme of delegation

MS Word Document, 293 KB

Catholic academies: supplemental agreement

MS Word Document, 97.1 KB

Model letter of consent from trustees/diocese to governing body on academy conversion

MS Word Document, 28 KB

PFI academy principal agreement: schools with a religious character

MS Word Document, 82.3 KB

PFI academy school agreement: schools with a religious character

MS Word Document, 96.7 KB

Details

The draft model articles of association, agreed with the Catholic Education Service and the National Society for the Church of England, are for church schools wishing to become an academy.

The model articles are broadly similar, but there are differences in the way the governance arrangements at membership and governing body level have been reflected.

‘Church of England academies: model articles of association’ should be used by:

• academy trusts with Church of England academies who are in the process of being established
• existing academy trusts updating their articles

Published 18 April 2013

Last updated 18 September 2023 + show all updates

1. 18 September 2023

   Replaced 'Church of England academies model articles of association: minority version' and 'Church of England academies model articles of association: majority version' with 'Church of England academies: model articles of association'. 'Mixed multi-academy trusts' has been removed as it is now out of date.

2. 5 May 2022

   Added 'PFI academy principal agreement: schools with a religious character' and 'PFI academy school agreement: schools with a religious character'.

3. 15 February 2019

   Replaced the document 'Catholic academies model articles of association' with latest version.

4. 8 February 2019

   Replaced Church of England model articles of association with new versions.

5. 6 February 2019

   Updated clause 8 of 'Church of England academies: supplemental agreement' and 'Catholic academies: supplemental agreement'. Also updated clause 23F of 'Church of England academies: supplemental agreement'.

6. 18 October 2018

   Removed 'Church of England and Catholic single academy model supplemental agreement' and 'Church of England and Catholic multi-academy model supplemental agreement'. Added 'Church of England academies: supplemental agreement' and 'Catholic academies: supplemental agreement'.

7. 22 December 2017

   Removed suspension clauses from 'Catholic academy articles of association: model 3 (February 2015)'.

8. 19 February 2015

   Added 'Catholic academy articles of association: model 3' document.

9. 9 June 2014

   Updated single and multi supplemental agreements.

10. 21 November 2013

    Added 'Mixed multi-academy trusts' document to page.

11. 18 April 2013

    First published.