Beneath the surface: what my award taught me about school finance 

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Chris Bramall didn't set out to win an award. He set out to fix a school's finances, save money for pupils, and do his job well. Here's what winning taught him about the quiet, invisible work of school business leaders …

Plan technology for your school: get help using the right digital and technology infrastructure

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Hattie Barham-Colwell, of the Department for Education's Safe and Reliable Technology team, explains how the plan technology for your school service can help you meet government digital and technology standards. In today’s fast-changing education landscape, technology plays a vital role …

Over £1 million saved - how Shaw Education Trust turned supply staffing into a strategic asset

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This is the final post in a three-part series. In our first post, we outlined the supply staffing challenges Shaw Education Trust (SET) faced. In our second post, we explained how they built their compliant master vendor model. Here, we …

How Shaw Education Trust built a compliant, trust-wide supply model - and how yours could too

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This is the second post in a three-part series. In our first post, we described the supply staffing challenges Shaw Education Trust (SET) faced and why acting early was essential. Here, we explain how they built their solution.  Once SET …

How Shaw Education Trust took control of supply staffing - and what your trust could learn from it

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For Shaw Education Trust (SET), a multi-academy trust of 31 schools across England, supply staffing had become one of the largest and least controlled areas of expenditure, with annual costs rising to over £5 million. SET took a step back …

Free procurement training for schools - apply now

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If you work in school or trust procurement, free training is now available to help you build confidence and improve how your organisation buys. Two programmes from the Department for Education (DfE) and the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply …