Centralising services across your schools can help you save money and streamline essential services. Find out which types of services you can centralise and how to pick one to begin this process with.
You need to understand how well the service you're thinking about centralising currently works. Find out how to use our operating model assessment and questionnaire to build a picture so that you can decide your next steps.
Now that you’ve decided to make changes to a service, find out how to use the results from step 2 to define exactly what it is you want to change and why you want to change it.
Weigh up the options for making changes to your service with our evaluation document. Find out who to involve in this decision and see what your next steps are depending on the option you choose.
Put together a project management team to help you carry out this step. Find out who should be on this team and how they can use our questionnaire to understand what staff across your trust need from the service.
This final step will help you put the right things in place to deliver the service. Put together the service provider, finish the service catalogue and get a service level agreement in place.
Read our advice if your trust is thinking of making changes to its financial model. Learn from 1 trust that opted for a targeted GAG-pooling model, and find out more about how this has helped it to drive school improvement.
Centralising services can help you save money and streamline essential services. See our flowchart to get a quick overview of our 6-step process for centralising a service.
Looking to balance central efficiency with local agency? Find out how a 54-school trust is effectively transitioning from a highly centralised model to 'regional adaptation', with staff adapting central resources and systems to suit their school’s context.