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The EAT has questioned the practice of term-time only workers having their annual holiday pay entitlement capped at 12.07% of annualised hours.
In this webinar, Emma Hughes and Emily Addai discuss options for restructuring staff costs and how and where this can go wrong.
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Understanding re-brokerage for academies webinar - October 2017
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11Sep
Engage with the country’s leading educational lawyers, safeguarding experts and practitioners at the Optimus Child Protection in Education Conference 2018. Join our speakers Dai Durbridge and Emma Hughes as they provide in depth guidance on your responsibilities and priorities for child protection in education.
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18Sep
Do we really have a self-improving system? That was one of the questions considered at our recent roundtable. A key part of the discussion focused on ‘autonomy’.
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One of the areas considered at our recent roundtable on the school system was the curriculum. In particular, it considered the adverse impact of the accountability and financial pressures facing schools on the curriculum offer they provided to their children and pupils.
The DfE’s approach to school improvement since the Academy Act 2010 came into force has been very intervention heavy – first with a significant increase in academy sponsorship, followed more recently by the rebrokering or transferring of academies between trusts.
The DfE has agreed a recommendation made by the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee that academy trusts should be forced to apply to the Education and Skills Funding Agency in order to approve ‘related-party transactions’.