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Benchmarking spending
See how you can identify schools similar to yours and make comparisons using the financial benchmarking service from the DfE. You'll also understand the benefits and limitations of benchmarking, and see examples of how other schools use it.
- Academies Financial Handbook: changes from September 2020
- Achieving efficiency in the staffing budget
- Allocating departmental budgets
- Benchmarking data: questions to generate discussion and analysis
- Benchmarking staff salaries
- Budget planning: how to and templates
- Budget reporting and monitoring systems
- Calculating the cost of lessons and courses
- Consistent financial reporting (CFR)
- Financial procedures manuals: examples
- Financial transparency: upcoming requirements for maintained schools
- How to calculate the cost of your whole-school SEN provision
- QuickRead: Managing the school budget
- Paying for refreshments out of the school budget
- Presenting your budget to governors: templates
- Request form for curriculum funds: template and guidance
- School budget: effective monitoring meetings
- School budget: expenditure on staffing
- Schools Financial Value Standard (SFVS): summary
- Teachers' pension grant: what you need to know
- Using Integrated Curriculum Financial Planning to maximise your resources
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