The Education Finance Consultancy Team provides independent financial advice and training to school and academy finance staff and senior leadership. Our specialist team is dedicated to offering a flexible and targeted service at strategic, managerial and operational levels to assist schools and academies to meet their educational and statutory responsibilities.
Remember – to access most of our finance consultancy content you need to subscribe to our finance consultancy service. If your school is a subscribing school please use the new weblink to access content or contact us if you have any queries: educationsales@devon.gov.uk.
How we can support your school or academy
We can support in the following:
- Academy/Multi-Academy Trust conversion services.
- Subscription service.
- Additional finance consultancy support – contact us direct.
- Helpdesk for subscribing schools – contact your Link Finance Consultant for general finance support.
- Training, conferences and masterclasses.
- User guides, including ‘how to produce teacher salary statements in FPS’.
- Bursar cover service.
Benefits of subscription
- Ensure excellent value for money.
- Ease the burden of financial management with on-going support, help at year-end and assistance with everyday financial processing.
- Ensure you meet regulatory and reporting requirements.
- Increase integrity of financial and management information upon which strategic decisions are made.
- Boost school finance staff skill sets
Testimonials
“On behalf of our schools (Primary Schools in Swindon), I would like to thank you for carrying out the evaluations and providing your recommendation for our next steps. I have had such great feedback from all three schools, commenting on what a positive experience it was and how they had been able to grow their knowledge.”
“Thank you for the work you did on reviewing our Pupil Premium allocation and expenditure. Coincidentally, Ofsted arrived two days after your visit and we were able to confidently discuss our Pupil Premium expenditure and impact.”
“Supporting us is your role but you go far beyond that and I know that I’m not the only one who appreciates what you do, so again thank you” Sue, Bassetts Farm Primary
Contact details
For all financial administration, financial management and SIMS FMS queries, please view our meet the team page here. For general enquiries, please email: schoolfinancetraining@devon.gov.uk