Readiness to Grow: Resource Management

Assure trust leaders and trustees to drive improvements and successful growth across your setting with the support of our Readiness to Grow: Resource Management.

Enhance Your Trust’s Growth

We know that plans and ambitions for growth vary between settings, which is why our independent overview adapts to your unique position.

Our reviews focus on:

Financial sustainability: considering the robustness of medium-term financial plans, levels of reserves, and links to growth plans and vision.
Financial management and accountability: considering financial management and budgeting systems and procedures, scheme of delegation, with a focus on the quality of financial information available to leaders and trustees.
Integrated curriculum and financial planning (ICFP): looking at the integration of strategic planning, KPIs and benchmarking, and accountability for schools to set a balanced budget.
Procurement: considering the trust approach to procurement through policy and procedure, degree of centralisation and the achievement of value for money and economies of scale.
Estates management and technology: a review of the Trust’s strategy, plans, management, and investment, considering the degree of centralised support and alignment of approach.
Central services: analysis of central support considering the clarity of offer and any top-slice or GAG pooling arrangements. Review of central team structure considering skills, resilience, and capacity.

Expert Support With Your School or Trust’s Vision for Growth

No matter where you are on your journey, our report provides you with observations, strengths, and RAG-rated recommendations so that you can keep progressing.

Strategy confidence

With our in-depth analysis, we can provide you with recommendations and assurance that you have the most effective systems and processes to support your growth strategy.

Tailored approach

We provide you with options and flexibility so that you can choose the type of overview you need – whether that’s the complete multi-disciplinary wrapper of our Readiness to Grow enablers or a partial review of one key area.

Complete analysis

Our respected and reliable team goes one step further to ensure that internal information is reviewed as part of the analysis, and key employees in your Trust are also consulted.

Sector expertise

No matter the complexity of your organisation, our experienced team has the necessary qualifications and academy-specific knowledge to support you – including Chartered Accountants, Accounting Technicians, and School Resource Management Advisers (SRMAs).

If you’re looking for support with your Finance service, please talk to us.

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