Academy Trust Handbook 2025
The website items the Academy Trust Handbook 2025 sets for academy trusts and their schools: governance, accounts, pay and interests, with the handbook's own wording for each.
Read the source on gov.uk ↗ · Last updated 17 September 2026
6 requirements
- Annual report and accountsMustThe academy trust's annual report and audited accounts, including its governance statement. The trust must publish the full accounts on its own website by 31 January, not only a Companies House link, and each academy's website must link to them.Every financial year · 1 February each year
- Board agendas and minutesMustAgendas, approved minutes and papers for meetings of the trustees, committees and local governing bodies. The academy trust must publish them on its website or make them available on request.No fixed date
- Governance informationMustDetails of the governing board: who is on it, how it is structured, how members are appointed, their attendance and their interests.Every 12 months · 1 September, the start of the academic year
- Staff paid £100,000 or moreMustThe number of employees paid £100,000 or more, shown in £10,000 bands and including off-payroll arrangements over that amount. Maintained schools and academy trusts must publish it. For trusts it covers the year ended 31 August.Every financial year · 1 February each year
- Trust governance informationMustDetails of how the academy trust is governed: its governance structure and scheme of delegation, the names of members, trustees and chairs, trustees' attendance and the register of interests. The trust must publish these on its own website.No fixed date
- Whistleblowing policyMustThe procedure for raising concerns about wrongdoing, and how staff who report it are protected. Academy trusts must publish it on the trust's website, and whistleblowing should also be covered in the staff code of conduct.No fixed date
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