According their 2013-14 accounts, these are the amounts that academies and academy trusts with schools in Norfolk paid out in staff severance payments last year.

Norfolk academies paid out more than £500,000 in staff severance payments

Academy Transformation Trust

Spent £466,000 on staff severance payments – compared to £58,000 the year before.

Of these, 26 were for more than £5,000, ranging from £5,350 to £34,342.

Acle Academy

None.

Arden Grove Infants

None.

City Academy Norwich

The school spent £9,000 on staff severance payments – for one person - compared to £19,000 in the year before.

Cliff Park Schools Trust

None.

College of West Anglia Academies Trust

The trust spend £61,000 on severance payments in 2013-14, compared to nothing the year before.

These were for £27,000, £13,000, £8,000, £7,000 and £6,000.

Diocese of Ely Multi-Academy Trust

The trust made one severance payment of £25,180.

Diocese of Norwich Multi-Academy Trust

None.

Diss High School

None.

Evolution Academy Trust

(Based at Costessey Junior School)

None.

Flegg High School

None.

Heart Education Trust

(Based at Heartsease Primary Academy)

None.

Hellesdon High School

None.

Hobart High School

None.

Inspiration Trust

The trust made three severance payments worth a total of £70,204. They were for £30,000, £5,204 and £35,000.

The Inspiration Trust also sponsors Thetford Academy – see below.

Lynn Grove High School

None.

Martham Primary School

The school spent £2,000 on staff severance payments in 2013-14. It made none during the previous year.

North Norfolk Academies Trust

(Based at Sheringham High School)

The trust made a single staff severance payment of £12,500 in 2013-14, compared to £4,535 the year before.

Notre Dame High School

The school paid out £31,515 in severance payments in 2013-14, compared to £11,758 in 2012-13.

The two payments in 2013-14 were for £16,385 and £13,230.

The Open Academy

The school made £31,786 in staff severance payments in 2013-14. The year before, the figure was £75,300.

Two of last year's payments were for more than £5,000 – one of £5,753 and one of £16,500.

Ormiston Academies Trust

The trust paid out £342,344 in severance payments. Three were for £25-30,000. In total, 25 were for more than £5,000.

Reepham High School

None.

Right for Success

(Based at Eaton Hall Specialist Academy)

None.

St Mary's Church of England Junior School

None.

Taverham High School

None.

Norfolk Academies (part of the Transforming Education in Norfolk (TEN) Group)

None.

Thetford Academy

The school paid £96,000 in staff severance payments in 2013-14. The highest payments were for £20,000, £17,125, £17,000, £12,000 and £12,000.

West Norfolk Academies Trust

(Based at Springwood High School)

The trust paid £92,923 in staff severance payments in 2013-14, compared to £6,500 the year before.

The highest cost £41,390. The others were for £25,700, £19,460, and £6,373.

Wymondham College

The college paid £500 in severance payments in 2013-14, compared to £11,616 the year before.

Wymondham High School

The schools made £88,524 in staff severance payment in 2013-14. It did not make any in the year before.

The highest payment was £17,000. Other were: £15,800, £14,695, £14,429, £13,600 and £13,000.