Agenda item

City of London Academies Trust, Academies Development Programme - Update

Report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services.

 

To be read in conjunction with the non-public appendices at item 33 of the agenda.

Minutes:

Members considered a report of the Director of Community and Children’s Services regarding the City of London Academies Trust, academies development programme update.

 

Clarification was sought over whether it was the Education Board or COLAT that needed to approve the role of KPMG and City, University of London as ‘Strategic Partners’. Agreement was being sought from the CEO, Chair and Deputy Chair of COLAT (on behalf of the Trust), along with the Director of Community and Children’s Services, Chair and Deputy Chair of the Education Board (on behalf of the Sponsor). Once the two co-sponsored academies had transferred, matters would only be presented to the Education Board in their capacity as sponsor, when necessary.

 

RESOLVED that,

 

·         the progress of academy capital builds be noted;

 

·         the Legal Due Diligence reports for the City of London Academy Islington (COLAI) and The City Academy Hackney (TCAH) to inform the CoLAT Board of Directors’/Trustees’ decision to transfer these academies undertakings into CoLAT, be noted;

 

·         the necessary resolutions required to be approved by the CoLAT Board to accept the transfer of the COLAI and TCAH undertakings into CoLAT by 1 September 2020, be noted;

 

·         the proposed membership of the new COLAI and TCAH Local Governing Bodies (LGBs) which was outside the ‘model’ for CoLAT’s LGBs governing bodies as previously endorsed by the City of London Corporation, be approved;

 

·         Russell Willmer be appointed as Chair to the COLAI LGB and Dawn Elliott as Chair to the TCAH LGB; and,

 

·         City, University of London in respect of COLAI, and KPMG in respect of TCAH, should continue as ‘Strategic Partners’ to these academies after the undertakings are transferred to CoLAT, and authority be delegated to Director of Community and Children’s Services [in consultation with the Chair and Deputy Chair of the Education Board and Policy & Resources Committee] to negotiate and agree the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding, and to sign the document, in each case on behalf of the City of London Corporation.

 

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