Staffing and Procurement Support for Academy Trusts
Link Education supports Multi-Academy Trusts and Single-Academy Trusts with temporary, long-term and permanent staffing across Primary, Secondary, SEND and Early Years education.
We can provide a coordinated service across a trust while continuing to understand and respond to the individual requirements of each academy.
Trust-Wide Staffing Support
Our service can include:
- A dedicated point of contact
- 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.
Accessing Link Education Through Value Match
Link Education is an approved supplier through the Value Match Managed Service Solution.
For participating MATs and SATs, Value Match provides an established route through which temporary teaching and non-teaching staff can be accessed.
The arrangement can support academy trusts with:
- Procurement assurance
- Transparent rates and agency expenditure
- Management information and reporting
- Streamlined administration and invoicing
- Sustainability and social value objectives
- Access to approved staffing suppliers
- Procurement and implementation support
The appropriate arrangement will depend on each trust’s procurement policy, financial procedures and internal approval requirements.
Link Education can liaise directly with a trust’s procurement, finance or HR team to explain the Value Match route and support the onboarding process.
Safeguarding and Compliance
Safeguarding is central to our recruitment and placement processes.
Candidates complete the relevant identity, right-to-work, employment-history, reference, qualification and criminal-record checks required for their role before being cleared for work.
Our recruitment and vetting procedures are aligned with current statutory guidance, including Keeping Children Safe in Education.
We can also provide trust procurement and compliance teams with supporting policies, procedures and corporate evidence through our MAT Compliance, Safeguarding and Procurement Pack.
Maintaining Established Relationships
Changes to procurement arrangements do not necessarily mean that individual academies must lose an established relationship with a trusted recruitment supplier.
Where the Value Match route is suitable and approved by the trust, Link Education can support continuity while helping central teams maintain oversight of staffing arrangements and expenditure.
Discuss Your Trust’s Requirements
If your MAT or SAT is reviewing its temporary staffing arrangements, contact Link Education to discuss your requirements and the Value Match onboarding process.
Call 01689 878 565 or use the contact form below.
