(Intermediate)
Theme: Education
18 September 2017, 9.30am registration (9.45am start) – 1.00pm (followed by lunch) Freeths Leicester, (with Video Conferencing Equipment to Freeths offices in Nottingham (numbers limited to 10), Birmingham, Manchester, London and Sheffield)
Please note we offer the option to attend this course via video conference at another of our offices to make it accessible to as many EM Lawshare members as possible. We do our best to deliver the best experience we can with the technology we have, but inevitably it may not be as effective as attending the course in person. We always appreciate your feedback and make improvements if we can.
Presented by Freeths
Course overview
Suitable audience:
LA Lawyers, education managers, school governors, Providers of FM services via LA trading units
Overview:
This course will cover the latest issues related to practice and legalities involved in academy conversion / merger.
Topics to be covered include:
• Practical Issues – what information provision is needed enabling Commercial Transfer Agreements, Leases and Funding Agreements to be entered into.
• Information – the extent to which local authorities are able to provide / warrant information.
• PFI Schools and conversion – role of local authority and other parties.
• Multi-Academy Trusts – alternative structures, particular issues related to structures and decision-making within MATs.
• Merger of existing academies into Multi-Academy Trusts – legal requirements and practical safeguards. What is the role of the local authority?
• Ongoing legal relationships between the Academy Trust / Local Authority and third parties – eg local authorities as service providers.
Interactive elements
Quiz
Duration: Half a day (3 training hours) including lunch
Competencies
This course will cover:
A Ethics professionalism and judgement
B Technical legal practice
B2 Legal research
B4 Draft documents
B5 Advocacy
B6 Negotiation
C Working with other people
C1 Communicate clearly and effectively
D Managing themselves and their own work
Presenter profiles:
Stephen Pearson is Head of Freeths Education Group. He has acted on a number of academy conversions and complex contractual outsourcing arrangements for a variety of schools, FE and HE institutions. He is a member of the Procurement Lawyers Association and specialises in advising in connection with complex contractual relationships.
Natalie Drought, Freeths