• The Trust believes it has a moral imperative to work to improve young people’s life chances through high quality educational provision, care and support in south Lincolnshire and its surrounds.
• The Trust puts children and young people first in its decision-making.
• The Trust has clearly defined roles for Members, Trustees and Academy Governing Committees
• The Trust has the support of the University of Lincoln as its sponsor to enhance opportunities for its young people and to provide guidance to its executive staff.
• The Trust is committed to being an employer of choice working to national and local conditions of service for staff as well as being members the teacher’s and Local Government pension schemes.
• The Trust seeks to empower its Principals by devolving maximum responsibility to them, as it believes that through their leadership they will drive their academy forward and optimise the educational and developmental performance of young people in their care.
• The Trust seeks to have very low central cost for our academies, to ensure the maximum resources are available to support learning.
• The central senior staff has a key role in monitoring performance, but are seen as facilitators of partnership working with Principal’s having a key role in academy policy decisions.
• The Trust has the same accountancy policies and systems for all academies
• The Trust has the same policies and procedures for all employment matters and employs the HR and payroll providers – Currently Capita and Bulley Davey respectively
• The Trust will not reallocate the local/national funding for its Academies, it is committed to maintain the allocated funding for each academy.
• The Trust allows all academies to maintain their own reserves, if reserves have to be used by another academy it will be through a loan set for a period of time and agreed by the Trust.
• If we have Condition Improvement Funding (CIF) delegated, it would be allocated across the Trust on a needs base criteria agreed by the Trust.