At a glance
What is a trust school?
A trust school is:
- A government funded foundation school supported by a charitable
trust
- The trust is made up of the school and partners working
together for the benefit of the school
A trust school will:
- Deliver a full curriculum for your child
- Continue to be inspected by Ofsted
- Manage its own assets, that means land and buildings
- Employ its own staff
- Set its own admissions arrangements
- Choose which partners to work with, for example other schools,
businesses, business foundations, colleges, universities or
community groups
A trust school is not:
- An academy
- A grant maintained school
- An independent school
- Involved in an admissions 'free-for-all'
- Funded differently from community schools
- Run by businesses
- Separated from the local authority
- Able to sell its land without going through the proper
processes
- Able to avoid local authority re organisation plans
Benefits
Depending on the kind of trust, its aims and the nature of its
partners it may:
- Enable schools/partners to raise standards of attainment for
children
- Enable schools/partners to share thoughts and ideas about how
to improve the school to benefit learners
- Enable schools/partners to share resources and expertise to
give better value for money
- Provide opportunities for learning in a variety of environments
beyond the school
- Offer additional enrichment activities to your child both
within the curriculum and beyond
- Be able to work with its partners to enhance the way it attends
to your childs well being
- Enable schools/partner to work more closely with the local
community
- Enable the school/partners to access additional charitable
funds
- Enable schools/partners to deliver a more diverse
curriculum