Common use of Central Services Clause in Contracts

Central Services. 1. To determine the scope of mandatory core services to be delivered by the Company on behalf of its Academies  2. To identify those additional services to be procured on behalf of individual academies  3. To ensure centrally procured services provide value for money  Budgets 4. To determine the proportion of the overall Academy budget to be delegated to individual Academies   5. To develop and propose the individual Academy budget  6. To approve the first formal budget plan each financial year  7. To monitor monthly expenditure   8. To approve any between budget headings and/or likely budget overspends  Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 9. To establish financial decision levels and limits  10. To establish a charging and remissions policy  11. To appoint the Responsible Officer or Internal Auditors.  12. Miscellaneous financial expenditure outside of the agreed budget  13. To enter into contracts (Directors may wish to agree financial limits) up to the limits of delegation and within an agreed budget    14. To make payments within agreed financial limits    Staffing 15. Principal appointments (selection panel)   16. Deputy appointments (selection panel)  17. Appoint other teachers   Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 18. Appoint non teaching staff   19. Agree a pay policy  20. Pay discretions  21. Establishing disciplinary/capability procedures  22. Dismissal of Headteacher/Deputy  23. Dismissal of other staff   24. Suspending Principal  25. Suspending other Staff   26. Ending suspension (Principal)  27. Ending Suspension (other Staff)   Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 28. Determining Staff complement within agreed budget  29. Determining dismissal payments/early retirement  Curriculum 30. To develop a curriculum policy  31. To implement curriculum policy  32. Responsible for standards of teaching    33. Accountability for standards of teaching    34. Responsibility for individual child's education    35. Accountability for individual child's education.    36. Provision of sex education – to establish and keep up to date a written policy    Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 37. To prohibit political indoctrination and ensuring the balanced treatment of political issues    38. To establish a charging and remissions policy for activities  Performance Management 39. To develop a performance management policy   40. To implement the performance management policy   41. To review annually the performance management policy    Target Setting 42. To propose targets for pupil achievement  43. To agree targets for pupil achievement   44. Responsibility for pupil outcomes   45. Accountability for pupil outcomes   Decision Level Admissions 49. To consult before setting an admissions policy  50. Admissions: application decisions  51. To appeal against LA directions to admit pupil(s)  Religious Education 52. Responsibility for ensuring provision of RE in line with the Academy’s basic curriculum and as a school without a religious character  Decision Level

Central Services. 1. To determine the scope of mandatory core services to be delivered by the Company on behalf of its Academies  2. To identify those additional services to be procured on behalf of individual academies  3. To ensure centrally procured services provide value for money  Budgets 4. To determine the proportion of the overall Academy budget to be delegated to individual Academies   5. To develop and propose the individual Academy budget  6. To approve the first formal budget plan each financial year  7. To monitor monthly expenditure   8. To approve any between budget headings and/or likely budget overspends  Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 9. To establish financial decision levels and limits  10. To establish a charging and remissions policy  11. To appoint the Responsible Officer or Internal Auditors.  12. Miscellaneous financial expenditure outside of the agreed budget  13. To enter into contracts (Directors may wish to agree financial limits) up to the limits of delegation and within an agreed budget    14. To make payments within agreed financial limits    Staffing 15. Principal appointments (selection panel)   16. Deputy appointments (selection panel)  17. Appoint other teachers   Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 17. Appoint other teachers   18. Appoint non teaching staff   19. Agree a pay policy  20. Pay discretions  21. Establishing disciplinary/capability procedures  22. Dismissal of Headteacher/Deputy  23. Dismissal of other staff   24. Suspending Principal  25. Suspending other Staff   26. Ending suspension (Principal)  Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 27. Ending Suspension (other Staff)   Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 28. Determining Staff complement within agreed budget  29. Determining dismissal payments/early retirement  Curriculum 30. To develop a curriculum policy  31. To implement curriculum policy  32. Responsible for standards of teaching    33. Accountability for standards of teaching    34. Responsibility for individual child's education    35. Accountability for individual child's education.    36. Provision of sex education – to establish and keep up to date a written policy    Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 37. To prohibit political indoctrination and ensuring the balanced treatment of political issues    38. To establish a charging and remissions policy for activities  Performance Management 39. To develop a performance management policy   40. To implement the performance management policy   41. To review annually the performance management policy    Target Setting 42. To propose targets for pupil achievement  43. To agree targets for pupil achievement   44. Responsibility for pupil outcomes   Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 45. Accountability for pupil outcomes   Decision Level 46. To establish a discipline policy   47. To review the use of exclusion and to decide whether or not to confirm all permanent exclusions and fixed term exclusions where the pupil is either excluded for more than 15 days in total in a term or would lose the opportunity to sit a public examination. (Can be delegated to chair/vice-chair in cases of urgency)   48. To direct reinstatement of excluded pupils (Can be delegated to chair/vice-chair in cases of urgency)  Admissions 49. To consult before setting an admissions policy  50. Admissions: application decisions  51. To appeal against LA directions to admit pupil(s)  Decision Level Religious Education 52. Responsibility for ensuring provision of RE in line with the Academy’s basic curriculum and as a school without a religious character  Collective Worship 53. Responsibility for ensuring that the Academy complies with its legal requirements in relation to collective worship as a school without a religious character  Premises & Insurance 54. Buildings insurance/risk pooling arrangements and personal liability  55. Developing school buildings strategy or master plan   56. Procuring and maintaining buildings, including developing properly funded maintenance plan   57. To institute a health and safety policy   58. To ensure that health and safety regulations are followed   Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 59. To publish proposals to change category of school   60. To set the times of school sessions and the dates of school terms and holidays  61. To ensure that the school meets for 380 sessions in a school year   62. To prepare and publish the school prospectus   63. To ensure provision of free school meals to those pupils meeting the criteria   64. Adoption and review of home-school agreements   65. To draw up governing documents and any amendments thereafter   66. To appoint (and remove) the chair of the LGB   67. To appoint and dismiss the secretary to the LGB  Decision Level

Central Services. 1. To determine the scope of mandatory core services to be delivered by the Company on behalf of its Academies  ✓ 2. To identify those additional services to be procured on behalf of individual academies  ✓ 3. To ensure centrally procured services provide value for money  ✓ Budgets 4. To determine the proportion of the overall Academy budget to be delegated to individual Academies   ✓ ✓ 5. To develop and propose the individual Academy budget  ✓ 6. To approve the first formal budget plan each financial year  ✓ 7. To monitor monthly expenditure   ✓ ✓ 8. To approve any between budget headings and/or likely budget overspends  ✓ Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 9. To establish financial decision levels and limits  ✓ 10. To establish a charging and remissions policy  ✓ 11. To appoint the Responsible Officer or Internal Auditors.  ✓ 12. Miscellaneous financial expenditure outside of the agreed budget  ✓ 13. To enter into contracts (Directors may wish to agree financial limits) up to the limits of delegation and within an agreed budget    ✓ ✓ ✓ 14. To make payments within agreed financial limits    ✓ ✓ ✓ Staffing 15. Principal appointments (selection panel)   ✓ ✓ 16. Deputy appointments (selection panel)  ✓ 17. Appoint other teachers   ✓ ✓ Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 18. Appoint non teaching staff   ✓ ✓ 19. Agree a pay policy  ✓ 20. Pay discretions  ✓ 21. Establishing disciplinary/capability procedures  ✓ 22. Dismissal of Headteacher/Deputy  ✓ 23. Dismissal of other staff   ✓ ✓ 24. Suspending Principal  ✓ 25. Suspending other Staff   ✓ ✓ 26. Ending suspension (Principal)  ✓ 27. Ending Suspension (other Staff)   ✓ ✓ Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 28. Determining Staff complement within agreed budget  ✓ 29. Determining dismissal payments/early retirement  ✓ Curriculum 30. To develop a curriculum policy  ✓ 31. To implement curriculum policy  ✓ 32. Responsible for standards of teaching    ✓ ✓ ✓ 33. Accountability for standards of teaching    ✓ ✓ ✓ 34. Responsibility for individual child's education    ✓ ✓ ✓ 35. Accountability for individual child's education.    ✓ ✓ ✓ 36. Provision of sex education – to establish and keep up to date a written policy    Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 37. To prohibit political indoctrination and ensuring the balanced treatment of political issues    38. To establish a charging and remissions policy for activities  Performance Management 39. To develop a performance management policy   40. To implement the performance management policy   41. To review annually the performance management policy    Target Setting 42. To propose targets for pupil achievement  43. To agree targets for pupil achievement   44. Responsibility for pupil outcomes   45. Accountability for pupil outcomes   Decision Level Admissions 49. To consult before setting an admissions policy  50. Admissions: application decisions  51. To appeal against LA directions to admit pupil(s)  Religious Education 52. Responsibility for ensuring provision of RE in line with the Academy’s basic curriculum and as a school without a religious character  ✓ ✓ ✓ Decision Level

Central Services. 1. To determine the scope of mandatory core services to be delivered by the Company on behalf of its Academies  x 2. To identify those additional services to be procured on behalf of individual academies  x 3. To ensure centrally procured services provide value for money  X Budgets 4. To determine the to proportion of the overall Academy budget to be delegated to individual Academies   5. To develop and propose the individual Academy budget  6. To approve the first formal budget plan each financial year  7. x Decision Level 7b To monitor monthly expenditure   8financial performance against budget on a termly basis. X 8a To approve any transfers between budget headings and/or (de-minimis limits to be determined by LGBs) X X 8b To approve any likely budget overspends  Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 X 9. To establish financial decision levels and limits  X 10. To establish a charging and remissions policy  X 11. To make decisions regarding the type of internal controls checks and appoint the Responsible Officer or Internal Auditorsappropriate persons to complete these checks.  X 12. Miscellaneous financial expenditure outside of the agreed budget  X 13. To enter into contracts (Directors may wish to agree financial limits) up to the limits of delegation and within an agreed budget    14. To make payments within agreed financial limits    X X Decision Level Staffing 15. Principal Head of School appointments (selection panel)   X X 16. Deputy appointments (selection panel)  X 17. Appoint other teachers   X 18. Appoint non teaching staff X 19. Agree a pay policy X 20. Pay discretions X 21. Establishing disciplinary/capability procedures X 22. Dismissal of Head of School X 23. Dismissal of other staff X X 24. Suspending Head of School X 25. Suspending other Staff X X Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 18. Appoint non teaching staff   19. Agree a pay policy  20. Pay discretions  21. Establishing disciplinary/capability procedures  22. Dismissal of Headteacher/Deputy  23. Dismissal of other staff   24. Suspending Principal  25. Suspending other Staff   26. Ending suspension (PrincipalHead of School)  X 27. Ending Suspension (other Staff)   Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 X X 28. Determining Staff complement within agreed budget  X 29. Determining dismissal payments/early retirement  Curriculum 30. To develop a curriculum policy  31. To implement curriculum policy  32. Responsible for standards of teaching    33. Accountability for standards of teaching    34. Responsibility for individual child's education    35. Accountability for individual child's education.    36. Provision of sex education – (delegated to establish and keep up to date a written policy    Decision Level Function No Tasks 1 2 3 4 37. To prohibit political indoctrination and ensuring the balanced treatment of political issues    38. To establish a charging and remissions policy for activities  Performance Management 39. To develop a performance management policy   40. To implement the performance management policy   41. To review annually the performance management policy    Target Setting 42. To propose targets for pupil achievement  43. To agree targets for pupil achievement   44. Responsibility for pupil outcomes   45. Accountability for pupil outcomes   Decision Level Admissions 49. To consult before setting an admissions policy  50. Admissions: application decisions  51. To appeal against LA directions to admit pupil(schair/vice-chair where necessary)  Religious Education 52. Responsibility for ensuring provision of RE in line with the Academy’s basic curriculum and as a school without a religious character  Decision LevelX X