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Top Academy Trust Shuns PFI Contract Schools £1m more for ofsted’s Veterans get Book review: illegal schools £40k to teach, but from podcast to taskforce there’s a catch the page page 5 page 5 page 24 SCHOOLSWEEK.CO.UK FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2018 | EDITION 132 PROFILE SUE JAY | PAGES 14-16 Top academy trust shuns PFI contract schools United Learning refuses any more PFI schools THE ‘HOODINERNEY’ CEO Jon Coles demands cap on costly repayments MODEL: HOW TO BUILD A NEW PFI contract delays deal for troubled WCAT school SCHOOL SYSTEM JESS STAUFENBERG | @STAUFENBERGJ PAGE 20 Exclusive PAGE 3 GOVERNMENT FUNDED INITIATIVE Bring Lyfta’s immersive content platform FREE FOR into your school with free Global Learning 12 Programme e-credits. See back page for more info. 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Schools week is proud to CORE EDUCATION – HEADTEACHER – CITY be a member of ACADEMY BIRMINGHAM – SALARY L30 - L36 Learning & Skills Events, HTTP://9NL.ES/YM14 Consultancy and Training Ltd 161-165 Greenwich High Road London SE10 8JA TO ADVERTISE YOUR VACANCY WITH EDUCATION WEEK JOBS AND SCHOOLS WEEK T: 020 8123 4778 PLEASE CALL 020 81234 778 OR EMAIL [email protected] E: [email protected] SCHOOLSWEEK.CO.UK EDITION 132 FRIDAY, MAR 9, 2018 3 NEWS United Learning refuses any more PFI schools JESS STAUFENBERG Nova Hreod in Swindon, persuaded to bring services in-house, even @STAUFENBERGJ Exclusive which was subcontracted when it would be cheaper to do so, said Coles. to Carillion, and the John As a result, “we’re not going to do any more One of the largest academy chains in England Smeaton Academy in PFIs because the cost is too high and the has refused to take on any new schools with Leeds, which is financed day-to-day management is just too difficult”. costly PFI contracts because it has “barely any by a number of European If a contract is “less unmanageable”, United control” over the buildings. banks. Learning might still consider them. The 51-school United Learning has Not only are the Lewisham council has five separate PFI declined to adopt the struggling Sedgehill repayments extensive contracts for 10 of its schools. A spokesperson School in Lewisham, south-east London, but the PFI buildings said none of the schools except Sedgehill are which council documents show has a debt of remain owned by the currently seeking new academy trusts. over £1 million per year. original company and Malcolm Trobe, the deputy general UL’s boss Jon Coles has also insisted that can therefore come with secretary of the Association of School and any similar request to take PFI-laden schools onerous conditions College Leaders, and a former headteacher of over will also be rejected, unless a “more regarding their upkeep, a PFI school, warned the contracts are leaving reasonable” deal is on offer. including non-negotiable schools “in limbo” across the whole schools PFI deals involve private companies costs for routine sector. stumping up capital funds for public maintenance jobs, such The National Audit Office has said that buildings. The cash is paid back, often with as repainting or changing more than half (63 per cent) of the schools considerable interest, over many years. bulbs. recently placed in special measures had not Under Sedgehill’s particular contract, £1.09 Sedgehill School “Getting anything done found new homes within nine months, and million was owed to Lewisham Schools for does not want to take on the school without a is incredibly difficult,” regional schools commissioners will be rated the Future Ltd last year, a private company contribution to the PFI costs or a “cap” on the said Coles. “You have to deal with companies on the percentage of failing maintained with links to Costain Pension Scheme Trustee repayments. that have various agreements with the schools they convert in that time. Limited, the pension fund of the construction PFI schools often have escalating fees built banks, so you end up in extremely long and School leaders are “majorly concerned” firm Costain, which was involved in the into their contracts. As Schools Week has complicated conversations.” about PFI repayments and the government construction of the Channel Tunnel. previously reported, schools in Stoke-on- The school in Swindon needed new light has an “obligation” to find a financial solution Dominic Herrington, the local regional Trent see their repayments grow at around bulbs in the sports hall, but the contractor if schools wished to join trusts, Trobe added. schools commissioner, approached several £30,000 per year, and the fee is pegged to was slow to sort it and the school had been A spokesperson for the Department for trusts when Sedgehill fell into special pupil numbers estimated over a decade ago, powerless to install new ones, he said. Education said its priority was that Sedgehill measures two years ago, but they all refused and which cannot be flexed to take into Other practical issues included the fact the pupils’ educations are not disrupted. The to take on the PFI contract. account falling rolls. headteacher did not actually have keys to the school’s new sponsor will be announced by United Learning stepped in to provide United Learning has had “difficult” school. September 2020, with the new academy open support services to the school but the trust experiences with two PFI schools in the past: The PFI provider would also not be by January 2021. SEND PUPILS WAIT UP £1.6m annual PFI bill holds up Yorkshire academy transfer TO TWO YEARS FOR NEW CARE PLANS JESS STAUFENBERG opportunity for generating more income, say @STAUFENBERGJ Exclusive by letting out the sports halls for conferences, Pupils with special educational needs are because there are strict rules in the contract,” waiting up to 90 weeks to be transferred from A private finance initiative contract costing he said. the old statements system to new education more than £1 million a year has stopped one Instead, a PFI school would need a “strong and health care plans (EHCPs), according to an of the last schools left from the collapsed educational offer” if its financials were investigation which found “worrying patterns Wakefield City Academies Trust from finding lacking. A talented staff body could share of delay”. SEND pupils are all supposed to be moved a new home. expertise at their new trust, while a good onto new EHCPs – the new way of identifying Mexborough Academy is one of the last reputation and upward trajectory in results pupils’ support needs – by April.
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