Decision Details

Implemented

International School conversion from Community School to Academy status

Yes

003513/2017

No

Report of Interim Corporate Director, Children & Young People

Mon 24 Apr 2017

1.1. To provide an update to Cabinet to ensure Members are fully aware of the financial implications associated with the academisation of the International School. Specifically that under current legislation the cumulative projected deficit of £3,500k falls on the Local Authority to fund. 1.2. As part of funding the deficit to seek approval to the use of £2,400k of capital receipts with the balance of £1,100k funded from the Capital Maintenance grant. 1.3. This report also seeks approval for the execution and completion of the commercial and legal documentation associated with the conversion, substantially in the form required by the Department for Education (DfE).

OLD - Transport and Environment

Cabinet

2 Diamond

Revenue in excess of £500k

Committee

Cabinet

On 18 April 2017, Cabinet:- (i) Noted that The International School, Gressel Lane, Tile Cross, Birmingham B33 9UF is proposing to convert to Academy status on or after 1st May 2017. The International School will be a Sponsored Academy and will be sponsored by Washwood Heath Multi Academy Trust (WHMAT) and will be known as Tile Cross Academy; (ii) Noted that the school has a large deficit balance (£3,500k) which will remain with the Local Authority at the point of conversion as confirmed in the DfE Guidance entitled ‘Treatment of surplus and deficit balances when maintained schools become Academies’; (iii) Approved the use of £2,400k of capital receipts to help fund the deficit, with the balance of £1,100k funded from the Capital Maintenance grant; (iv) Authorised the grant and completion of the lease for the International School to the WHMAT for 125 years substantially in the form of the model lease produced by the DfE at a peppercorn rent and also the completion of a Commercial Transfer Agreement (CTA) relating to the transfer of staff under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 and assets to the Academy Trust. The school site being transferred is identifiable as shown on the accompanying redline plans (see Appendices 1a, b and c to the report); (v) Authorised the completion of the appropriate contract variations for The International School in respect of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) Facilities Management (FM) and ICT contracts and the entering into of the School Agreement relating to the establishment of the Academy Trust as a new legal entity on the site and the consequent ongoing Academy Trust contributions to the costs of the FM and ICT contracts; (vi) Authorised the City Solicitor to negotiate, execute and complete all necessary documents to give effect to the above recommendations. THE DEADLINE FOR CALL IN IS 1600 HOURS ON MONDAY 24 APRIL 2017.

No

No

No

No