school management

Business managers expected to save money and free up time

Primary schools will have access to up to a thousand extra school business managers under the latest DCSF scheme aimed at helping schools achieve savings and make their money go further.

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HE NATIONAL College for Leadership of Schools and Children Services is to receive £5m to fund 250 school business managers, each working with four or five schools, with a further 250 more in each of the following three years. It is intended that schools in every local

authority have a school business manager, giving them access to free consultancy support on how to save money, along with guidance from the DCSF and National College on partnership working, procurement and delivering value for money.

Resources

The new school business managers will work across four or five primary schools, helping them manage their budgets more effectively and, in turn, help protect and improve front line services. Currently only a third of all primary schools have business managers. Those that do report

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that on average, they are generating an additional £30,000 a year for the schools, through maximising resources and securing additional income streams. Furthermore, pilots run by the National College show that head teachers with access to school business managers report reduced workloads, with higher- level school business managers having a potential to free up to 30% of their time. The recent DCSF announcement is in addition to the free consultancy advice that all schools can access showing how best to save money. Areas in which schools believe they can save money include on procurement and back office functions and through federations and collaboration.

Central savings

The Government has decided that savings can also be made centrally and through its partner non-departmental public

bodies (NDPBs). All NDPBs are expected to make efficiency savings, but in particular the Government plans to save £45m over the two years 2011-13 from BECTA's budget and £55m over the two years 2011-13 of the Training and Development Agency non-core initial teacher training budget. Other savings will be found through cutting start-up funding for extended services (£100m), and reducing ‘golden hellos’ for teachers (£50m) in subjects that already have large numbers of new applications. Cuts in the region of £21m can be made on DCSF back office and communications spending, including moving Teachers TV online. While the savings add up to over £300m over two years, more work needs to be done to identify a further £200m worth of cuts, which were agreed with the Treasury in the Pre-Budget Report. Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52  |  Page 53  |  Page 54  |  Page 55  |  Page 56  |  Page 57  |  Page 58  |  Page 59  |  Page 60  |  Page 61  |  Page 62  |  Page 63  |  Page 64  |  Page 65  |  Page 66  |  Page 67  |  Page 68  |  Page 69  |  Page 70  |  Page 71  |  Page 72  |  Page 73  |  Page 74  |  Page 75  |  Page 76  |  Page 77  |  Page 78  |  Page 79  |  Page 80  |  Page 81  |  Page 82  |  Page 83  |  Page 84  |  Page 85  |  Page 86  |  Page 87  |  Page 88  |  Page 89  |  Page 90  |  Page 91  |  Page 92  |  Page 93  |  Page 94  |  Page 95  |  Page 96  |  Page 97  |  Page 98  |  Page 99  |  Page 100