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Whilst the continued expansion of the educational services market will present opportunities to make savings, schools and academies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate appropriate due diligence has been carried out in relation to their contracts. Whether it is straightforward terms and conditions of sale, complex outsourcing projects or partnership agreements, ensuring your school is aware of the commercial risks is critical to protecting your school, your reputation and your budget.
Our expert team can advise on a wide range of contractual issues including helping you to identify and manage risk in commercial contracts, negotiate key terms or look at debt recovery. We provide a quality service to fit your needs, whether it is a high-level review on terms and conditions or supporting you through detailed negotiations on a high value contract. We help you put in place robust, commercially-focused agreements that protect you and your school.
Supporting schools in terms of a wide range of contractual advice including procurement, drafting contractual terms, assisting clients with risk assessments of contractual terms with suppliers.
Sharing experience of common commercial issues with suppliers.
Partnership agreements assisting schools in putting together partnership agreements to support collaborative and commercial activities.
Advising on all contracts from simple terms of conditions all the way through to outsourcing agreements.
Protecting your intellectual property - providing advice on trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property issues.
Supporting with litigation including debt recovery.
Traditionally there are many ways for schools to raise money for charity: bake sales, non-uniform days and throwing wet sponges at teachers.
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These FAQ are designed for single schools looking to convert to academy status, a group of schools wishing to form a multi academy trust or a school looking to convert and join an existing multi academy trust.
Lydia explains the key risks you need to think about before entering into a legally binding arrangement.
Lydia Michaelson-Yeates explains some key issues to consider before entering into commercial arrangements.
Sources say this is 'a very helpful team that's willing to go the extra mile.'
Browne Jacobson LLP provides ‘a responsive and knowledgeable service with a large enough team to cover all key issues’.
A highly ambitious organisation with a superb corporate image, excellent client support and good commercial awareness.
Good, not just with the law, but also empathetic to our aims. They are on the button, prompt and nice to deal with, which is an added bonus.
Excellent educational law knowledge.
Reviewing a catering contract from the favoured tenderer of a school. We advised the contract contained extremely onerous and unclear terms which the contractor was unwilling to change. As a result, our client worked with a different catering company, whose terms we reviewed and were much more favourable to the school.
Drafting and negotiating a bulge provision agreement for a school that had been put under extreme pressure from their local authority to take additional numbers at very late notice. We worked with the head teacher under severe time pressure to ensure the agreement secured contractual comfort from the local authority, that the provision was adequately funded and that key safeguards were put in place.
Negotiating the terms of a joint use agreement between an academy, a county council and a district council where the terms of use of a leisure centre, hockey pitch, car parking and a bus lane were agreed. The project involved extensive discussions involving issues such as contributions to utilities, shared access, sharing of employees and safeguarding.
For some time the Academies Financial Handbook has restricted Academy Trusts in how much they could pay for goods or services purchased from a 'related party' i.e. a person or organisation closely linked to the Academy Trust.
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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’.
One of the main headaches I face as a Business Manager is ensuring I set a balanced annual budget.
The new school year is here and September and October is certainly one of the busiest times of the year for School Business Managers.
If you are thinking of academy conversion and becoming an independently managed, publicly funded school then make sure you use leading education sector lawyers to make your academy conversion a smooth and straightforward process.
Quickcall is our fixed fee annual support service provides you with immediate access to specialist advice when you need it most.
Browne Jacobson provides a range of HR Services for schools and academies tailored specifically to the needs of your school.
Whilst schools will be familiar with the traditional governor compliance issues, they may need support.
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