Members' library

• Leading schools
  • Managing schools
    • Helping schools use resources well
      • Ten ways to help your school manage its budget
      • Securing the best for less
      • The principles of school finance
      • Financial planning and budgeting
      • Strategic financial management and budgeting
      • Financial monitoring, reporting and evaluation
      • Cash management
      • Evaluating financial resource management
      • Creating capacity for strategic and operational leadership
      • Procurement
      • Personnel and benefits management
      • Leading learning and teaching
      • Managing the organisation
      • Effective use of resources: case studies

Helping schools use resources well

• Ten ways to help your school manage its budget effectively

  Extract from an ldr magazine article.

• Securing the best for less

  The findings of research projects investigating how schools can use their resources more efficiently and effectively.

• Cash management

  How schools can manage their cash holdings effectively, through choosing the right bank accounts and developing procedures for cash flow forecasting, invoicing and credit control.

• Evaluating financial resource management

  Evaluating the allocation and use of financial resources is an essential part of effective school business management. This article explains different approaches to evaluation and introduces the concepts of best value, benchmarking and effective procurement.

• Creating capacity for strategic and operational leadership

  How headteachers can use distributed leadership, leadership development and good time management to design and grow an organisation that builds the strategic and operational capacity of its staff.

• Personnel and benefits management

  How to recruit and select job candidates, plus an overview of personnel management issues including induction, employment policies and procedures and employee benefits.

• Leading learning and teaching

  How the headteacher can use the whole school workforce to continually improve the school’s learning culture and improve outcomes for pupils.

• Managing the organisation

  The role of the headteacher in leading and managing change, including building teams and external collaborations to secure positive outcomes for pupils.

• Effective use of resources: case studies

  Examples of how schools are using their resources efficiently.