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Model funding agreements for schools or groups establishing a new multi-academy trust and single or multi-academy trusts establishing new academies and free schools.
Template documents with standard articles of association for different types of academy trust.
Application processes for mainstream and special schools applying to convert to academy status.
Application form, proprietor details form and submission checklist to register an independent school in England.
Documents to help schools converting to academy status submit their land information to the Department for Education.
Application form for single academy trusts wishing to change their governance so they can become a multi-academy trust (MAT).
Model documents for PFI schools converting to academy status.
Documents that grammar schools converting to academies must complete to make changes to their admissions criteria.
Application forms for opening a university technical college (UTC).
Documents for schools transferring the freehold of their school site to the academy trust as part of the academy conversion process.
Form for members and directors of academy trusts to submit personal information.
Template to help free schools, university technical colleges (UTCs) and studio schools produce their lease.
Additional forms to make amendments to the funding agreement for PFI academy conversions.
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