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The Guardian has highlighted the integral role of school business managers and how that role has recently become more demanding. Increasing numbers of schools are becoming responsible for managing their own budgets, entering into their own contracts and hiring their own staff. Furthermore, as groups of schools come together to collaborate e.g. in multi-academy trust structures and hard federations, the size of the budgets being managed can be huge.
This increased autonomy coincides with increased scrutiny from local and central government. Academies must comply with their funding agreements, company and charity law and the Academies Financial Handbook; maintained schools must ensure compliance with the Scheme for Financing Schools. Business managers are central to this compliance and will need advice from various professionals including accountants, auditors, bankers and lawyers to ensure that they fulfil their legal and contractual obligations. It is vital that school leaders ensure that their business managers are valued, supported and can benefit from ongoing training to help them meet this demanding role.
The recent case of R (on the application of A Parent) v Governing Body of XYZ School [2022] EWHC 1146 (Admin) provides some welcome and reassuring guidance to governing boards on the exclusion reconsideration process.
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With 19 HR experts now supporting over 500 schools and trusts across the country, in this edition of 60 seconds we sit down with Emma Hughes, who leads the team, to discuss what this significant milestone means to her.
In order to reduce the risk of potential breaches, schools should follow this Health and Safety Executive guidance.
A ResPublica report highlighted that asbestos continues to be the UK’s number one occupational killer, with nurses and teachers 3 to 5 times more likely to develop mesothelioma than the general UK population. The House of Commons Work & Pensions Select Committee is investigating how the HSE manages the continued presence of asbestos in buildings.
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