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Information to help open academies and academy trusts comply with their funding agreement and understand their funding and payments.
This guidance is for sixth form colleges who are converting to academy status and hold contracts for Apprenticeships, Advanced Learner Loans or Adult Education Budget.
Publications and guidance about the Commissioning Academy.
Documents for schools transferring the freehold of their school site to the academy trust as part of the academy conversion process.
This guide explains how we select new schools and schools that undergo significant changes for inspection.
How to arrange an effective external review of governance for your school or academy trust, and improve the performance of your board.
Details on Academy for Social Justice events.
Archive of legacy DfE notices to academy trusts about poor or inadequate performance or weaknesses in safeguarding, governance or financial management.
Guide and links to further information about financial returns academy trusts submit to the Education and Skills Funding Agency.
Deadlines for schools converting to academy status.
The call for evidence into a new UK National Academy of Mathematical Sciences is now open.
This guide explains how academies are paid and how to change bank details.
A guide for schools opening as academies to estimate their revenue funding.
Documents that schools converting to an academy will need as they go through the conversion process.
Information on leasing activities for academy trusts from 1 September 2024 following the introduction of international financial reporting standard (IFRS 16 leases).
Annual reports on the expenditure and performance of the academy school sector.
Briefing about the Education and Skills Funding Agency's assurance work relating to the financial management and governance of the academies sector in 2022 to 2023
The Government Finance Academy vision is to build financial capability for finance and non-finance professionals across government.
Information for academies about their annual revenue funding.
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