A Trust School is a local authority maintained school which is supported by a charitable Trust. In order to operate as a Trust school, schools must adopt their own foundation e.g. community schools such as Lyng Hall School need to change their status to become a foundation school. This Trust appoints some of the governors to serve on the schools governing body either as a majority or a minority.
All Trust schools operate within the same framework as other maintained schools: they teach the National Curriculum, follow the School Admissions’ Code and are inspected by Ofsted. Teaching staff will be employed under the terms of the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document. The local authority will fund the school on the same basis as all other local authority schools and will retain its intervention powers if there are problems at the school.
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