Academy trusts: off-payroll appointments
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Guidance for academy trusts on how to request approval for appointing an off-payroll accounting officer or chief financial officer.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Guidance for academy trusts on how to request approval for appointing an off-payroll accounting officer or chief financial officer. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Introduction
- How to request approval
- What you need to tell us
- When we may approve a request
- When we may reject a request
- Diocesan arrangements
- If you do not agree with the decision
Source and licence
Department for Education
AttributionDepartment for Education, ‘Academy trusts: off-payroll appointments’ (updated 7 January 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026