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Benchmarking spending
Find out what you can do with the schools financial benchmarking service from the DfE, and understand the benefits and limitations of benchmarking. You'll also learn how other schools are using benchmarking.
- Academies Financial Handbook: changes from September 2019
- Academies: running a deficit budget
- 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)
- Costing whole-school SEN provision
- Finance glossary
- Showcase: Financial efficiency in a medium-size primary school
- Financial procedures manuals: examples
- Informing staff about a deficit budget
- QuickRead: Managing the school budget
- Maximising financial efficiency: advice and case studies
- Paying for refreshments out of the school budget
- Presenting your budget to governors: templates
- Purchases: reviewing value for money
- 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: how to find out your allocation
- Using Integrated Curriculum Financial Planning to maximise your resources
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