Education and training services

Tender description

The Department for Education id introducing SRMAs to support the Department’s Excellent School Resource Management programme. Our objective is to provide direct support to academy trusts and local authorities, where appropriate to do so, to identify opportunities to improve resource management. This is part of the Department’s overarching objective to help improve outcomes for pupils and promote social mobility, by getting the best value from all of their resources. The role of the accredited person will be to support academy trusts and local authority maintained schools who have come to the Department’s attention as having poor financial health, either now or in the future, to restore the school’s/trust’s financial position(s). Accredited persons will take a holistic view of the school’s/trust’s financial situation, including consideration of the following issues: — human resources: effective curriculum delivery, workforce planning and wider use of staff and leadership time, — school management and governance: financial management and challenge and curriculum & financial planning, — resources: procurement (including, for example, consideration of National Deals, schools’ buying strategies etc.), value for money, capital finance and estate management. Accredited persons will support effective resource management by providing independent and impartial advice to schools and trusts on how to maximise resources in order to maintain and improve educational outcomes for all pupils, including those with SEN. Accredited persons should take into account the nature of the school, i.e. whether it is academy or maintained, MAT or SAT, mainstream, special or alternative provision, primary or secondary, and whether it is a faith school.