{"id":48056,"date":"2014-09-26T15:29:54","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T15:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=da287b98f233dbea5785a53821a62d97"},"modified":"2014-09-26T15:29:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T15:29:54","slug":"news-story-academies-funding-training-videos-and-webinars-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48056","title":{"rendered":"News story: Academies funding: training videos and webinars launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Following the success of last year\u2019s training resources, the Education Funding Agency (EFA) has today released a series of <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/registration.livegroup.co.uk\/efa\/\">short training videos<\/a> to help academies and free schools understand how their 2015 to 2016 funding allocation will be calculated. <\/p>\n<p>This online approach allows instant access to relevant information, which academies can view at a convenient time. It includes bite-size updates about different elements of schools funding. The videos are accompanied by powerpoint presentations which are also available to download for internal training purposes.   <\/p>\n<p>The presentations cover:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the essentials of academy funding for the 2015 to 2016 academic year<\/li>\n<li>funding for free schools, UTCs and studio schools<\/li>\n<li>engaging with your schools forum<\/li>\n<li>the Education Services Grant &#8211; includes a worked example of the new tapered funding protection<\/li>\n<li>the Minimum Funding Guarantee &#8211; including capping and scaling <\/li>\n<li>funding for new openers<\/li>\n<li>funding outside your General Annual Grant <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are also planning two interactive funding webinars which offer participants the opportunity to ask a panel of experts questions about next year\u2019s funding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>funding for academies: 2015 to 2016 academic year on Thursday 9 October at 2pm<\/li>\n<li>funding for free schools, UTCs and studio schools on Tuesday 14 October at 2pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/registration.livegroup.co.uk\/efa\/Registration\/\">Registration<\/a> is open now. You can register to attend a webinar and also submit any questions you might have beforehand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online resource aimed at academies and free schools to help them understand the impact of the funding changes for 2015 to 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}