Type Academy DfE number 330/4109 Ofsted Reports | Headteacher Mr Stuart Turnbull DfE URN 138141 Tables Phone +44 121 360 4242 Gender Mixed-sex education | |
Location Beeches Road
Perry Beeches
Birmingham
West Midlands
B42 2PY
England Address Beeches Rd, Birmingham B42 2PY, UK | ||
Birmingham perry beeches the academy trust school is inadequate
Perry Beeches The Academy (formerly Perry Beeches School) is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the Perry Beeches area of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England.
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- Birmingham perry beeches the academy trust school is inadequate
- Message to parents from chief executive of perry beeches the academy trust
- Perry Beeches The Academy Trust
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Previously a community school administered by Birmingham City Council, Perry Beeches School converted to academy status in May 2012 and was renamed Perry Beeches The Academy. However the school continues to coordinate with Birmingham City Council for admissions.
Perry Beeches The Academy offers GCSEs and BTECs as programmes of study for pupils. Students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels offered as part of a consortium of schools that form Perry Beeches Sixth Form.
Message to parents from chief executive of perry beeches the academy trust
Perry Beeches The Academy Trust
Perry Beeches The Academy is formerly the lead school of Perry Beeches The Academy Trust, a multi-academy trust which was formed of Perry Beeches The Academy, Perry Beeches Primary I, Perry Beeches II The Free School, Perry Beeches III The Free School, Perry Beeches IV The Free School and Perry Beeches V The All Through Family School. Together the schools offer a combined sixth form provision.
In May 2013, Education Secretary Michael Gove officially opened Perry Beeches II The Free School, and in September 2013, Prime Minister David Cameron visited Perry Beeches III The Free School shortly after it had opened.
In March 2016 the Education Funding Agency published a critical report on the financial management and governance of the Trust. The report showed that the chief executive of the Trust, Liam Nolan, was being paid by sub-contractors as well as by the Trust. In addition more than £2.5 million of free school meal funding could not be checked because financial records had been deleted, that £1.3 million had been paid to a sub-contractor without a written contract or after a formal procurement exercise, and there was not effective oversight by trustees. In April 2016 the Education Funding Agency started investigating additional allegations.
In May 2016 it was announced that the chief executive of the trust, Liam Nolan had resigned, as well as the trust’s entire governing board. The five academies and free schools that were formerly part of the trust are now being administered directly by the Department for Education until new sponsors can be found for the schools. The trust had an estimated debt of £1.8 million, and was running at a significant deficit.