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Primary schools to get access to school business managers |
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DCSF provides £5 million to fund 250 business managers to work with four or five schools.
A scheme launched to help schools make their money go further will give primary schools access to school business managers, which have been shown to save schools up to £30,000 a year.
The DCSF will provide the National College for Leadership of Schools and Children Services £5 million to fund 250 school business managers next year, each working with four or five schools, with a further 250 more in each of the following three years.
Only a third of all primary schools currently have businesss managers.
The announcement means that schools across the country now have access to school business managers working to save money in clusters of primary schools, free consultancy support on how to save money and advice and guidance from the DCSF and National College on partnership working, procurement and delivering value for money.
In addition, the DCSF will take the lead on saving money by reducing spending on Government agencies by £135 million, cutting start-up costs for extended services by £100 million, reducing bursaries for initial teacher training, saving £50 million and saving £21 million on DCSF back office and communications spending, including moving Teachers TV online.
Together all these savings add up to over £300 million over two years, with work underway to identify a further £200 million worth of savings.
Ed Balls, Schools Secretary, said: "Schools business managers make a real difference. They help heads save money and allow them to maintain the record numbers of teachers and teaching assistants in classrooms across the country."
"We will only achieve efficiency savings while at the same time continuing to improve school standards and raising levels of achievement by working together."
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