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Showcase: Financial efficiency in a medium-size primary school
This Showcase presents a case study on achieving financial efficiency from a school recognised for its good practice. You will find information about how Belgrave St Bartholomew's Academy maximises efficiency in the staffing budget, reduces costs by working collaboratively, and saves money by conducting maintenance 'in house'.
Contents
- Maximising efficiency in the staffing budget
- Reducing costs by working collaboratively
- Providing maintenance work 'in house'
- 3-year budget plans: guidance on forward projection
- 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 spending
- Benchmarking staff salaries
- Budget reporting and monitoring systems
- Calculating the cost of lessons and courses
- Consistent financial reporting (CFR)
- Costing whole-school SEN provision
- Finance glossary
- 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 the budget to governors
- 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 Updated
- Using Integrated Curriculum Financial Planning to maximise your resources
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