Policy paper

School resource management: building a stronger system

Our approach to supporting schools and academy trusts to get best value from their resources.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 31 August 2018
• Last updated: 8 June 2023 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

Applies to England

Documents

School resource management: building a stronger system

PDF, 662 KB, 25 pages

Monitoring progress and impact of the strategy

PDF, 181 KB, 10 pages

Details

These documents are for:

• staff and leaders in schools and academy trusts, including:
  • executive leaders
  • school leaders
  • school business professionals
  • teaching and support staff
• responsible boards, including:
  • governing bodies for local authority maintained schools
  • boards of charity trustees for academy trusts

They apply to all state-funded schools in England including:

• local-authority-maintained schools
• academies
• free schools
• voluntary-aided and voluntary-controlled schools
• foundation schools
• schools with a religious character
• SEND and alternative provision settings
• maintained nursery schools and early years settings within a school

‘School resource management: building a stronger system’ describes how we will work in partnership with the sector to help create a strong, robust and sustainable future schools’ system, by equipping every school and academy trust with the tools they need to get best value from all their resources.

‘Monitoring progress and impact of the strategy’ describes how we will:

• assess the effectiveness of resource management practices
• assess the engagement with school resource management tools and services
• measure the savings schools have made by using school resource management tools
• monitor trends in schools’ financial health

Published 31 August 2018
Last updated 8 June 2023 + show all updates

1. 8 June 2023

   Added 'Monitoring progress and impact of the strategy'.

2. 5 July 2022

   We have added a reference to NAHT, the school leadership union, to page 12 of the 'School resource management: building a stronger system' document.

3. 10 June 2022

   Removed 'Supporting excellent school resource management' and 'Supporting excellent school resource management: strategy'. Added 'School resource management: building a stronger system'.

4. 1 February 2022

   Updated 'Supporting excellent school resource management' following closure of the north-west buying hub. Removed reference to Salix loans on same page.

5. 17 April 2019

   Updated contact signup details in 'Supporting excellent school resource management' and 'Strategy' guides.

6. 31 August 2018

   First published.