Improving the Quality of School's Budget Monitoring

Brief overview

The course will provide an opportunity for school staff to work together on practical and theory based activities, to ensure that the monitoring completed at the school is as accurate as possible, and fully explained when presenting the information to others.

There will be discussions around the roles and responsibilities when monitoring, communication and improving the effectiveness monitoring at the school or academy.

There will be an opportunity to share good practice during feedback to the group.

Note:-  This is a theory based course and does not provide training on the use of the Budget Planning Software.

Members of the Schools Financial Services team will be present to facilitate group activities, giving delegates the opportunity to network with finance staff that work closely with schools and academies.

Delegates should bring the following with them to the course:

• Copy of latest 3 year plan from Budget Planning Software.
• Monitoring report at 6 and/or 9 months.
• Outturn report (Year End Report) for previous financial year.