Falcon Education Academies Trust

Background:

Falcon Education Academies Trust was established as an academy trust in 2019, initially to pilot a new concept of “the turn-around trust”. Its aim was to take on and “turn-around” schools and academies with a complex range of challenges, in the then two RSC areas of Lancashire and West Yorkshire, and the North of England.

Unlike “standard operating trusts”, where schools join a forever family of academies, the primary objective of Falcon, is to provide support for a defined period of time in which to enable sufficient improvement, before then moving the school on to another trust.

Our purpose is to secure immediate, sustainable improvement in our academies, drawing upon the expertise of our trustees and senior leaders, working in conjunction with partner trusts and individual experts in their field. All of our partners have proven track records in improving schools in very challenging circumstances and are carefully selected according to the unique needs of the school

Since opening, the pilot has been extended nationally, to cover all RSC areas and Falcon continues to focus on finding the best solutions for those projects it is asked to assist with.

Falcon Education Academies Trust is a Department for Education (DfE) approved sponsor multi-academy trust. Due to our focus on supporting in challenging circumstances, our academies will either be Ofsted Inadequate maintained schools that have been issued with an Academy Order by the Secretary of State or may be existing academies that the DfE believe would benefit from being part of our Trust.

We will continue to work closely with the DfE National Schools Commissioner and Regional Schools Commissioners to identify such schools and academies.