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Posted on 22nd July 2016
National Funding Formula - Update
The Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening has released a written statement to Parliament on school funding. In the statement, she has said the national funding formula will be delayed an...
Posted on 18th July 2016
Schools Out
The last blog of the 2015/2016 Academic Year. I write this as a new Education secretary, Justine Greening, is appointed. No doubt over the summer we will see whether this changes the direction of gov...
Posted on 1st July 2016
Tempus Fugit
Time Flies! Its July already and time to dust off the trophies for sports day, get out the tombolas for the summer fete and say good bye to staff leaving at the end of term. There will be transition...
Posted on 15th June 2016
Turnbull Report - A left field view on risk management for schools
Euro 2016 has started. Up and down the land adults and school children will be making assessments of the chances of their country in winning (at least one match), and thinking about mitigating the ri...
Posted on 6th June 2016
Here comes summer!
At the start of the final half term of this school year we look at the EFA’s calendar and at some of the announcements in the last few weeks. EFA Calendar For The Final Half Term We start this blog...
Posted on 25th May 2016
Education for All
“A Bill will be brought forward to lay foundations for educational excellence in all schools, giving every child the best start in life. There will also be a fairer balance between schools, through...
Posted on 16th May 2016
Kaizen!
Every school, academy and college wants to get better. This week we look at research that might help you. Research, Collaborate, Streamline – revisited. In an earlier blog we discussed what steps ...
Posted on 4th May 2016
Changing role of the SBM
A bumper finance and business post will be published next week. In the meantime, here's something we thought you might like to read. Changing role of the SBM We wanted to share this really interes...
Posted on 26th April 2016
Changes to CFR & March Accounts Return
April is a busy period in all schools. For those in the maintained sector it is the start of a new financial year - with the EFA announcing changes to CFR. All academies are required to provide ...
Posted on 12th April 2016
April Round Up
For those considering expanding their Academy Trusts or opening a new UTC the DfE have recently issued guidance. Primary Schools are reminded to publish details on how they spend their Sports Grant. ...
Posted on 22nd March 2016
Budget, and so much more
They say a week is a long time in politics. A week ago we had proposals for a national funding formula that meant all schools would be funded direct by the EFA from 2019-2020. In this week’s budget...
Posted on 15th March 2016
Biggest change to funding
You will have seen our earlier blog (click here) announcing that the Department for Education is consulting about a ‘national funding formula’. This proposal is the most significant to effect sc...