Pay of CEO of trust which asked for extra cash from the government rises at least 15% to approach �200k

The pay of the chief executive of an academy trust, which was told by officials it was “not viable” without emergency government cash support, surged by at least 15 per cent last year, its just-published annual accounts disclose.

The TBAP trust, which runs alternative provision centres for children not being educated in mainstream schools, saw the government’s academies funding body writing to it last August to issue it with a “Financial Notice to Improve”.

This saw officials highlighting its need for cash advances from government together totalling £950,000.

However, the trust’s annual accounts show Oates receiving £195-£200,000 in 2017-18, plus £25-£30,000 in employers’ pensions payments. This was an increase of at least £25,000 – or 14.7 per cent - on the £165-£170,000 payment recorded for 2016-17. The rise could be as high as 21 per cent.

(This will put Oates within the top 20 or so highest-paid people in the academies sector in our unofficial league table of pay, though this is updating all the time.)