Better Budgeting: Tame Your Costs

Are you tired of trying to find new ways of saving money to balance your budget? Are you wondering how to reflect pupil number changes in your three-year expenditure plan? Or is your school restructuring its curriculum or staffing, which will change the number of classes and have implications for the budget?

This course identifies three main categories of costs which behave in different ways when you are facing changes in pupil numbers or the way your school is organised. It will show you how to build a simple cost model that will help you achieve a cost-effective budget and recognise at what size your school can operate most efficiently. You'll be able to demonstrate the cost implications if you are asked to take more pupils, either in relation to mainstream growth or pupils with SEND, enabling you to negotiate funding with confidence.

This is the first course in the Better Budgeting series of courses by Julie Cordiner of School Financial Success. Prioritise your own learning with straightforward, bite-sized videos that you can dip into and revisit as often as you wish.