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Orientation and Executive Summary

Welcome, Objectives, and 2025 Change Map

Regulatory Context and Risk Appetite Alignment

Governance and Accountability Updates

Board Composition, Independence, and Skills in 2025

Conflicts of Interest and Related Party Transactions (RPTs)

Financial Management, Internal Control, and Assurance

Funding, Reserves, and Financial Planning Under 2025 Rules

Internal Control Framework and Assurance Model

Transparency and Reporting Enhancements

Operations: People, Procurement, Data, and Estates

People and Conduct: Accountability, Safeguarding, and Data Protection

Procurement, Value for Money, and Sustainability

Estates, Health and Safety, and Business Continuity

Strategic Integration and Change Leadership

Translating 2025 Requirements into MAT Policies and Procedures

Board Engagement, KPIs, and Assurance Dashboards

Knowledge Checks and Application

Quiz 1: Governance Changes and Roles

Quiz 2: Conflicts and Related Party Transactions

Quiz 3: Financial Planning, Reserves, and Reporting

Quiz 4: Internal Control, Fraud, and Assurance

Quiz 5: Procurement, ESG, and Estates Compliance

Course Feedback Survey

Academies Trust Handbook 2025: Strategic Compliance for MAT Leaders is a practical, board-focused course designed to help CEOs, CFOs, Accounting Officers, COOs, and Trustees translate the 2025 ATH into confident action. If you lead or govern a multi-academy trust, you’ll get a clear map of what’s changed from 2024 and how to update governance, finance, internal control, people, data, and estates to meet heightened expectations. Using plain language and real-world examples, the course shows you how to define risk appetite, refresh your scheme of delegation, strengthen internal scrutiny, and evidence value for money and transparency. You’ll build an action log, complete a policy gap analysis, and create board-ready assurance dashboards that stand up to ESFA scrutiny. Each section converts regulation into decisions, controls, and KPIs you can implement immediately—supported by quizzes to check understanding. By the end, you’ll have a documented plan to align your trust’s governance and operations to ATH 2025, protect public money, and provide your Board and Members with timely, credible assurance.

Academies Trust Handbook 2025: Strategic Compliance for MAT Leaders

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            <p>Academies Trust Handbook 2025: Strategic Compliance for MAT Leaders equips executive teams, trustees, and governance professionals with a clear, actionable pathway to comply with the latest expectations while strengthening strategic oversight. The course opens with an orientation that links core aims to MAT leadership responsibilities and to the assurance your board and Members expect. You will map the deltas between 2024 and 2025 across governance, financial management, internal control, people and estates, and transparency and reporting, and establish an approach to learning that uses action logs, policy gap analysis, and a practical cadence for board engagement. We set the regulatory context by positioning the ATH alongside funding agreements and Companies Act duties, and show how to align your risk appetite—and the work of your board and audit and risk committee—to the 2025 transition.</p>

<p>From there, you will dive into the governance changes that matter most: member–trustee separation, independence and quoracy standards, refreshed skills matrices spanning finance, audit, estates, cyber, and ESG, and strengthened responsibilities for the chair and accounting officer with implications for your scheme of delegation. You will operationalize tightened rules on conflicts and related party transactions through robust definitions, pre-approval thresholds, documentation, and value-for-money testing—supported by practical controls such as declarations, annual attestations, thorough minuting, and proactive due diligence.</p>

<p>Financial management and assurance modules translate 2025 rules into multi-year budgeting, cash flow stress testing, clear reserves policies, and precise grant compliance evidence. You will build an internal control and assurance model that separates internal scrutiny from external audit, prioritizes risk-based plans and thematic reviews, and upgrades fraud response, whistleblowing, and ESFA reporting timelines. Transparency and reporting content guides you through enhanced annual report narratives, remuneration disclosures, executive pay justification and benchmarking, publication deadlines, website compliance, and consequences for non-compliance.</p>

<p>Operational expectations are addressed end-to-end: senior leader conduct and registers, safeguarding oversight within new governance structures, and strengthened data protection and cyber controls, including incident response and training coverage. You will refine procurement practice against revised thresholds and competition requirements, develop a trust-wide commercial strategy to secure value for money and probity, and embed sustainability and ESG principles into estates planning, energy efficiency, and whole-life cost decisions. Estates and health and safety governance are paired with business continuity planning for critical suppliers, cyber downtime, and emergency communications.</p>

<p>The course culminates in strategic integration. You will map policies across governance, finance, related parties, procurement, people, and estates, redesign the scheme of delegation to clarify central and school-level decision rights, and create an implementation roadmap that blends training, internal communications, and culture reinforcement. Board engagement content provides 2025-aligned KPIs, assurance dashboards with heatmaps and trendlines, exception reporting, and an annual oversight cycle that leaves a strong evidence trail. Knowledge checks throughout—covering governance, conflicts, finance, internal control, procurement, ESG, and estates—ensure applied understanding, while a closing survey captures feedback to refine future iterations.</p>
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