SCHOOLS FOR EVERY CHILD

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  4 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. SCHOOLS FOR EVERY CHILD 2024-02-23 → present
2. SOUTH ESSEX ALLIANCE MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST 2017-11-30 → 2024-02-23
3. THE RAYLEIGH PRIMARY SCHOOL ACADEMY TRUST 2013-03-14 → 2017-11-30

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

MWS Accountants Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“After making appropriate enquiries, the Board of Trustees has a reasonable expectation that the Academy has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. For this reason they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.”

Significant events

• “A new strategic plan for 2023-26 is in place, focusing on raising standards, strengthening governance and leadership, and streamlining systems and processes to improve the running of the schools.”
• “The Scheme of Delegation for the Local School Boards was reviewed and strengthened along with the financial regulations to strengthen governance activities and compliance.”
• “The distributive leadership strategy introduced in autumn 2023 led to strengthened, increased flexibility and responsiveness of leadership at all levels.”
• “Financial scrutiny has strengthened and improved with the migration to new systems, leading to more effective reporting at Board level.”
• “The pace of the development of a central services model increased rapidly during the year, leading to increased efficiency and effectiveness and expanded support for teaching and standards.”
• “Benchmarking between schools contributed to monitoring and scrutiny through a strengthened executive leadership team and shared monitoring activities.”
• “Safeguarding monitoring increased and strengthened during the period.”
• “The staff wellbeing approach has been strengthened through mental health support, counselling line, group supervision, and coaching.”
• “Curriculum development was a key focus throughout 2024/25, led by the CEO with Headteachers, including CPD, NPQs, and Trust-wide training.”
• “The new vision and values led to a richer cross Trust focus on learner-led and pupil-focused activities, contributing to morale and improved standards.”
• “Pro-social behaviours have been prioritised and rewarded with a significant improvement in behaviour.”
• “Results for all 2 schools in July 2025 at KS1 and KS2 showed upward trends and were above the national average in KS2 at 2 schools.”
• “Three Trustees resigned, with the addition of two new appointments.”
• “The impact of the RAAC issue on Wyburns school has created new risks that the Trust is closely monitoring.”
• “Prior year adjustments were made to correct misstatements identified in the prior year financial statements.”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

9

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

2

last 12 months

Officers resigned

4

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +7.8%

  £4,919,946 → £5,305,740

• Cash

  -23.8%

  £402,862 → £307,001

• Net assets

  -1.7%

  £15,270,900 → £15,010,974

• Employees

  -11.7%

  163 → 144

• Wages

  +7.7%

  £3,130,990 → £3,373,377

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers