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How We Work
 

We work as an integrated team, with your school and legal advisors and the school leadership team, providing overall project management and delivery of specific work streams.

Having agreed a Scope of Work, we will develop a specific project plan to meet the needs, resources and timescales of your school and to ensure alignment with other stakeholders. From this we will agree fees depending on the scope, and offer a capped fee based on a set number of days at chargeable rate, to avoid unpleasant surprises at a later date! A typical Scope of Work covers:

1. Overall project management including planning, monitoring and risk management:

  • Corporate and governance
  • Buildings and land
  • Commercial
  • HR and TUPE
  • Funding
  • Financial and operational transition
  • Consultation and communications

2. Managing the overlaps between key work streams:

  • Funding Agreement Annexes: Legal documents and Academy policies
  • Commercial Transfer Agreement: TUPE, contracts, assets, loans and balances
  • Financial Management: Governance, financial systems, company reporting and audit
  • HR & TUPE: Employer liabilities, due diligence, payroll and Academy T&Cs
  • Consultation and Communications: Academy Bill, TUPE and stakeholder engagement
  


A Principal’s view

“As a hard federation of two schools, our Governing Body had to consider very carefully the opportunities, responsibilities and risks of Academy status. Place Group supported us through our deliberations - providing invaluable, up-to-the minute insights from their support to other convertor schools and academies. Now that our Governing body have voted to pursue Academy conversion we were delighted to appoint Place Group as our advisors, confident they will guide us carefully through the process as part of
our team.”
Arthur Terry School, Birmingham
School Excellence