How to Run an Academy School is an essential guide to the legal and regulatory compliance required of academy governors, trustees and school leaders. The book provides insight on all manner of key issues faced by those in charge of schools, including governance, funding, board meetings and minutes, finance, risk and information management. The text itself is full of features such as specimen documents (e.g. an example of a board meeting agenda), diagrams and summaries and is broken down into digestible chunks in order to present the key issues in an accessible form for those new to the area. The second edition will respond to changing legal and political context. New legislation will include the Department for Education s power to force schools in under-performing local authorities to convert to academy status.