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Can an academy grant a charge over land in return for a grant of sports funding?

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Published on: 12 September 2016
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Does an academy have the Authority to grant a charge?

The authority and powers of an academy in relation to the land where the academy is situated will depend on how the Secretary of State handles the matter in the Funding agreement applicable to the particular academy or Free school.

Most academies and free schools have accepted the standard wording in the Department for Education (DfE)’s model funding agreement. The model funding agreement for academies and free schools is updated very frequently, but every successive version has provisions that cater for various sets of the circumstances

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Authority definition
What does Authority mean?

The public sector body procuring the project. This might, for example, be a local authority, an NHS trust, a central Government Department or a Non-Departmental Public Body.

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