Schools

We have unrivalled expertise in supporting schools with Ofsted readiness, opening new settings and leading inspections. We work with schools to bring about impactful change, often over several years. In addition we support schools in emergency situations and are experts in speedy turnarounds of failing settings.

We are experts in assessing a settings operational efficiency, working with stakeholders to assess current provision and designing systems and processes to enhance provision. With a keen eye for financial optimisation, we bring a wealth of experience and proficiency in automating processes, removing blockages and leveraging internal capacity.

We love strategy and operate at a strategic level across all our work. We love working with committed professionals and lay leaders to develop strategy and put it into practice. We support implementation by getting operationally involved where appropriate or training and developing internal capacity to enable you to flourish.

Recognising the challenging environment facing schools, we have developed a fully outsourced School Business Management offer. We undertake all the functions of a typical SBM/CFO either short term or permanently. This brings significant financial, operational and leadership capacity to schools and governing bodies/trusts beyond a traditional SBM/CFO.

We conduct reviews, offer fractional SENDCO provision and or support for existing staffing. We have a proven track record in successfully applying for Educational Health Care Plans (EHCP) and Senif funding and support schools and parents/families directly.

We work with all types of educational institutions to maximise non-governmental income. This includes developing business plans to maximise income generation as well as leading fundraising initiatives, crowd funding campaigns and voluntary contributions campaigns. We use our unrivalled sector expertise to maximise governmental income.

Our team are all safeguarding experts and we support clients to deliver educational environments that are exemplars of safeguarding excellence. We review existing provision, provide training, conduct investigations and offer ongoing support and development to our retained clients.

There is nothing we haven’t dealt with when it comes to HR in education. As well as providing a fully outsourced HR function for educational providers, we offer bespoke packages to support with safer recruitment, to produce/review policies and procedures, oversee complex HR cases and deliver ongoing support.

We provide education providers with a full-service administrative function. We enable new settings to grow at the right speed by centralising their admin function, offering virtual office, telephone and email support as well as secretarial services. This includes admissions functions, data management clerking services.

We offer the full suite of marketing functions for schools and education providers. From fractional/outsourced CMO provision to web design and build and graphic design, we support our clients with bespoke packages and retained support arrangements.

We lead capital projects allowing education leaders to concentrate on the business of education. From full rebuilds/new builds to large-scale redevelopments and satellite site opening, we can lead the full process from design, tender, build, to operational fit-out.