Staffing and Procurement Support for Academy Trusts
Link Education works successfully with Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) and Single-Academy Trusts (SATs), providing temporary, long-term and permanent staffing across Primary, Secondary, SEND and Early Years education.
As an approved supplier through the Value Match Managed Sourcing Service (MSS), we offer participating trusts an established procurement route for accessing temporary teaching and non-teaching staff.
Our flexible approach combines coordinated trust-wide support with a clear understanding of the individual staffing requirements of each academy.
Accessing Link Education Through Value Match
The Value Match Managed Sourcing Service provides MATs and SATs with a structured and supported route to working with Link Education.
The service supports academy trusts with:
- Procurement assurance
- Transparent rates and greater visibility of agency expenditure, in line with RM6376 framework
- Management information and reporting
- Streamlined administration and invoicing
- Access to approved staffing suppliers
- Sustainability and social value objectives
- Procurement and implementation support
Our experienced team works directly with trust procurement, finance and HR colleagues to explain the Value Match route, align the arrangements with the trust’s internal procedures and provide practical support throughout onboarding.
Trusted Staffing Support Across Your Trust
We already work in partnership with MATs, SATs and individual academies, providing responsive staffing support shaped around their requirements.
Our service can include:
- A dedicated point of contact
- Coordinated support across multiple academies
- Consistent safeguarding and vetting standards
- Emergency and day-to-day cover
- Short-term and long-term placements
- Maternity and sickness cover
- Permanent recruitment
- Clear rates and assignment information
- Regular communication and service reviews
Our specialist teams recruit teachers, teaching assistants, HLTAs, learning support professionals, cover supervisors, nursery practitioners and other education staff.
Whether supporting a single academy or multiple settings across a trust, we provide a reliable service that combines central coordination with local knowledge and individual academy support.
Safeguarding and Compliance
Safeguarding is central to everything we do.
Before being cleared for work, candidates complete the relevant identity, right-to-work, employment-history, reference, qualification and criminal-record checks required for their role.
Our recruitment and vetting procedures are aligned with current statutory guidance, including Keeping Children Safe in Education.
We can also provide procurement, HR and compliance teams with supporting policies, procedures and corporate evidence through our MAT Compliance, Safeguarding and Procurement Pack.
Maintaining Established Relationships
Link Education has valued, established relationships with MATs, SATs and individual academies across the areas we serve.
The Value Match route enables trusts to continue working with Link Education while strengthening central oversight of staffing arrangements, agency expenditure and compliance.
This gives trusts the advantages of a coordinated procurement approach while allowing individual academies to continue receiving responsive support from a recruitment partner that understands their setting.
Discuss Your Trust’s Requirements
Whether your MAT or SAT is reviewing its staffing arrangements, developing a trust-wide approach or exploring the Value Match route, our team is ready to help.
Call 01689 878 565 or use the contact form below.
