Dulwich Hamlet School

[villager1d]

Anyone know if DHJS has decided finally to go over to the Dark Side and become a Gove Academy?

[villager1d]

It appears the school has, on the quiet, hoping no one would notice

[villager1d]

It appears the school has become a Gove Academy, on the quiet, in the hope no one will notice.

[mishadreams]

Sorry VillagerId but that's crap, no-one has done anything on the sly, there have been 4 meetings, each attended by about 50 to 60 people who actually bothered to turn up, and express their opinions rather than moan and bitch about it, without actually bothering to turn up.

[Otto]

It is now an academy. We received a letter this week announcing this.

[legalbeagle]

Sorry I know this is a daft question but can someone educate me on what the difference is and why it matters?!

[bawdy-nan]

There's lots about it in this thread here

But mainly it means that the school comes out of Southwark control and becomes a company limited by guarantee and a charity receiving funding directly from the Dept of Ed. The school doesn't have to contribute to the local authority wide fiund to pay for shared services and canchoose what services it opts into. The main financial reason given at the meetings I attended was that there was a short window of opportunity to derive maximum benefit from this non-payment to the council. It is not clear how long the advantage will remain.

In terms of regulation it is no longer inspected by OFSTED and is not subject to normal oversight by the charities commission as it will be an "exempt charity".

There's lots more and, as I said, I think its set out in some detail in the other thread

[legalbeagle]

Thanks - weird I did a search and that thread didn't come up.......

But thank you. That's very interesting.