A governance shake-up lay at the heart of the academies programme, but the model is flawed
The resignation of a Cambridgeshire headteacher following a dispute about the amount of money spent on overheads by the trust that runs his secondary school has placed in the public domain a source of tension more frequently discussed behind closed doors. Top-slicing of school budgets by multi-academy trusts is the way this governance model works. The trusts pool money taken from school budgets to fund themselves and the services they provide. These include IT, premises management and, increasingly, centralised curriculum development.
With school budgets under intense pressure, and nearly half of multi-academy trusts in England in deficit because their income has not risen in line with costs, it is not surprising that negotiations are causing friction. Last year, plans by the multi-academy trust Reach2 to pool funding and reserves were referred to mediation after unions representing teachers and other staff objected.
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