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Dear Colleagues,
Thank you so much for your support
and contributions at the Services to
Schools Event. The exhibition
providers have given us some great feedback. It was a great way for all of
us to speak with current providers
we procure from, as well as research ing alternative contracts. This event came at the same time as the new
procurement regulations come into
play, whereby we all need to make
sure we are transparent and robust in
our procurement processes. In March, as part of my work with the
Central England Business Management Group, I met with the procurement representative from the DfE who outlined some future
training courses they are developing to help us all with this area
of work. Hopefully we will be able to get them to come to our
Autumn term meeting. For more information go to:https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/
attachment_data/file/409380/Effective_buying_for_your_
school__02_Mar_15.pdf
Our next conference is a little bit different, as we’ll be working very
closely with Schools Advisory Service on Wellbeing workshops
and the ‘Go Mad’ team on the concept of ‘Different Thinking, Different Results’, together with coaching and mastering change
workshops. ‘Go Mad’ stands for ‘Go Make a Difference’ and they
have published lots of great books to support innovative thinking
and tools to support your success in both school and personal life.
Don’t miss it, there will be lots of valuable giveaways. We hope
that we can get as many members as possible to attend. Don’t
forget you can send a representative from your school if for any
reason you are unable to join us.
We’re almost at the point of registering our Charity Application to
become a CIO which will hopefully be finalised in the next month
or so. It has been a massive task but a big thank you goes out to
the CEFM team for their help and support with this work.
We have two more Business Network Events planned for you
this academic year, so please book on these quickly to avoid
disappointment:-
• 11th May 2015 - Pupil Premium
• 7th July 2015- HR and Performance Management
Frances Rowland (Nottingham City Committee Representative)
and I have also started our work with the DfE/NASBM/CIPFA
on the accreditation/professional development for Schools/
Academies and Business Managers to recognise the good work
going on in this sector. It is hoped this will be released to all
Schools and Academies later in the Autumn Term.
The committee is also still keen to get new representation from
a member who is based at a Nottingham City School/Academy,
please contact Frances Rowland at eduserve@nottinghamasbm.
co.uk if you want to learn more about this opportunity. Likewise
we are also on the look-out for volunteers from both City and
County Schools and Academies to help us out on conference/
training days, but who will not have to get involved in a committee responsibility – if you are interested in this please contact myself at [email protected]
Finally, we have just arranged preferred supplier agreements with
PS Financials and Reprotec and welcome them on board for the
next 3 years with the group. Likewise, we will continue to work
with SAS, CEFM and SAAF as our main partners and thank them
for their continued support and guidance to Nottingham ASBM.
Thank you so much for your continued support of the group and I
look forward to seeing you again at our next event.
Karen Bonser, Chair, Nottingham Association
of School Business Management
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NASBM Meetings 2014-2015
These are the draft agendas for our meetings this year. As last year the February meeting will be
combined with the Services for Schools procurement event attended by 40 exhibitors.
Final Conference 2014-2015
16th June 2015
Theme – Go MAD! Go Make a Difference!
Sponsor update - SAS
Go MAD is a company that provide leadership, innovation and business transformation programmes
that are both inspirational and practical in helping people think differently See more at: http://www.gomadthinking.com
Go MAD will arrange an interesting day for us all with workshop choices both before and after lunch
Raffles and Chair Close
Parc facilities open to delegates
Nottingham ASBM – SUGGEST A LOCAL TRADER
We often have members asking us to invite a particular trader or company to exhibit at our
conferences. To help members let us know about a great local company or trader, we have created
a simply online form which can be filled in directly from our website.
You can access the form by navigating to our website www.nottinghamasbm.co.uk
and follow this route on the menu:
Conferences > Exhibitors and Sponsors
Please make sure the trader or company you are suggesting is aware of the exhibition charges and
the facilities – these are clearly detailed on the online form.
Nottingham ASBM – Business Network Training Events
11th May 2015
ked!
Fully Boo
Pupil Premium Workshop
Fully Booked
!
7th July 2015
HR/Performance Management
To book a place on these training events please go to the Nottingham ASBM website: http://nottinghamasbm.co.uk/ and click on the conferences tab.
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Richard Whitehead pictured with
NASBM Vice Chair & Treasurer Jane Fowkes
Conference Feedback
Richard Whitehead - a hugely popular speaker
At our conference in February we were delighted to welcome Richard Whitehead as our motivational
speaker. Despite being absolutely exhausted following the very recent birth of his son, Richard was a
huge hit with our delegates. The resoundingly positive feedback received for both Richard and Tricia
Stewart in November is going to be a difficult act to follow! It’s definitely been inspirational – let’s
hope we can try and match this success next year.
As you know we really value your feedback and will be discussing your evaluations at our next
committee meeting.
We raised £222 for SCOPE with our Spring Raffle so a big ‘thank you’ for your donations.
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Our Spring Term prize winners are listed below & good luck for our Summer raffle!
PrizeWinner
SAAF Red Letter Day Toni Allport – Redlands Primary
Spa Voucher (NASBM)
Rachel Hudd – Brunts Academy
Zenergi – DEC
Michelle Cavell – Prospect Hill Infants
Zenergi – Champagne
Jane Bellingham – Langold Dyscarr Primary
Whittle - Kindle
Janet – Trent Vale Infants
Aspire – M&S voucher & supply day
Anne Hall – Committee & Carlton Central Juniors
Reprotec – Champneys set
Lisa Wakelin – Bodet
School Pod – Ultimate Choc collection
Stella Sefton – Calverton St. Wilfrid’s Primary
School Pod – Prosecco Amanda Ackroyd – Bunny C of E Primary
Absolutely Catering – Bridges gift bag
Katie Cresswell – Middleton Primary
Simply Education – Thorntons Francesca Parr – Standhill Infants
Sports Maintenance Service - Champagne Valerie Smith – Parkdale Primary
Ridge – Bluetooth Wireless Speaker
Wendy Haywood – Burton Joyce Primary
Ridge – Sparkling Shiraz Chris Shaw – Jesse Gray Primary
CEFM – Prosecco
Linda Pickering – Arnbrook Primary
ICT Services – Cabernet Sauvignon
Janet Dobson – West Bridgford Infants
Bodet – Shiraz
Julie Dimaline – Old Basford School
IDNS – Sony Digital Camera & biscuits
Toni Allport – Redlands Primary
In addition to the above Nottinghamshire County Council’s Finance Internal Audit competition
‘Guess the Amount in the Jar’- actual amount was £138.48
The winners were:1st place – Fiona Williamson – John Hunt Primary (£137.52)
2nd place – Karen Greenwood – Sutton-cum-Lound C of E Primary (£142.00)
3rd place – Christine Dalby – Ollerton School (£150.00)
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regional schools and academies. Segmented into five sections of Business, Additional Needs, Premises, School
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see services that you can handover to our teams of
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Consolidated billing with statements so you aren’t managing multiple invoices. Please contact Frances Rowland
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Use this great offer to stock up on all your school and
classroom essentials ahead of the Summer rush.
For more information on ESN please email
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or phone us on 0115 8764598
or visit www.eduserve.co.uk.
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SAS raise national awareness of supporting
staff through the menopause
Mandy Gallagher, Head of nursing at Schools Advisory Service, was interviewed by BBC Breakfast News earlier this
month raising the importance of providing support for school staff affected by the menopause. Around a quarter of
teachers, including senior leaders, are female and aged between 40 and 54. This group represents some of the country’s
most talented and experienced classroom practitioners.
The news coverage came as government tsar Dr. Ros Altmann seeks to raise awareness of the issues faced by women
in the workplace who are experiencing menopausal symptoms.
Mandy said that staff affected by the menopause are often “suffering quietly” when balancing the demands of work
and home life – including bringing up children and supporting aging parents. This can often be to the detriment of
their own personal health and wellbeing. Many women may put the common symptoms of fatigue, hot flushes and
increased irritability, down to the stress of these demands, rather than realising that there may be an underlying reason
for the way they are feeling.
“As a nation” says Mandy “we invest thousands of pounds in our female school leaders and teaching staff, all of whom
form a valuable part of society. Indeed, teachers and leaders are key to the success of schools and their pupils. Headteachers and governing bodies are increasingly recognising the risk of long-term absence amongst their most talented
and experienced teachers due to these health issues and a lack of support. Prioritising support for these colleagues
requires a culture that gives individuals the confidence that they can discuss these sensitive issues with their line manager and that support will follow.”
Schools advisory services’ nursing team is placing an increased focus on providing confidential support to client schools,
both through access to online resources and confidential telephone consultations with experienced nursing staff.
For more information on confidential support services available to staff in SAS client schools, please visit the
website at: www.schooladvice.co.uk
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The most comprehensive advice service for schools
CEFMi is recognised as one of the most comprehensive resources for school managers. Our telephone support service now includes the following integrated services:
No other provider offers such a broad range of national expertise delivered at a local level.
Membership not only provides access to our team of experts, but also includes the following free benefits:
Nottingham ASBM discount – members of Nottingham ASBM benefit from significant discounts on our services.
CEFMinform - our regular informative email.
Delegate places on our very popular school management essential updates events.
Course discounts - subsidised delegate places on CEFM run courses.
For details:
CEFM
Red Lion House, 9-10 High Street, High Wycombe, Bucks. HP11 2AZ
T 01494 459183
F 01494 474480
E [email protected]
www.cefm.co.uk
Tel: 01494 459183 Web: www.cefm.co.uk Email: [email protected]
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Happy Easter, we hope you enjoyed your break and are ready for the Summer Term. During the last half term we
have been busy supporting schools with budget setting, we are now moving into supporting our academies with
budget setting as well as supporting our schools with closing down the 2014/15 financial year. SAAF Newsletters
We regularly post news articles on our website www.saafinance.com with important updates and deadline information for schools and academies. We have recently implemented an e-newsletter; which will be sent to schools and
academies once every half term, the e-newsletter includes links to relevant news articles and information we feel may
be beneficial to you. However please continue to check our website regularly to ensure you receive information as
soon as we post it.
SAAF Software Budget Planning Application
SAAF’s new Budget Planning Application (BPA) has now been launched for all Nottingham City schools and is being
used to set 2015/16 budgets. Academies and Nottinghamshire County schools will have access later in the year.
We have already received excellent feedback from many of our City schools regarding the application and its capabilities; it is very easy to navigate and extremely user friendly. The new tool is able to handle full curriculum costing
including apportionable staff costs; ideal for performance related pay reviews and great for tracking your Pupil
Premium. It also incorporates a maternity calculator, flash reporting; including dynamic and user tailored KPI analysis,
internal benchmarking and our one click ‘Fix & Submit’ function. We also now give you the ability to create multiple
budgets in the single application ensuring optimum version control.
As the tool evolves we will also be implementing a multi year budget planner, in year forecasting and much more.
SAAF Payroll
Michelle McDonald joined SAAF in October as SAAF’s payroll manager; she has worked exhaustively to support our
current payroll customers as well as continuing to grow the service. Michelle is dedicated to providing an excellent
service and is always on hand to support and advise our schools and academies.
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New Team member
We would like to welcome Gareth Norrey, the newest member of the SAAF team. Gareth is an academy finance
specialist; he has worked extensively with academies for a number of years and has an expert knowledge of academy
finance.
New Services
SAAF are excited to have started working with select partners in order to offer you additional services that are excellent value for money. Our new services range from no win no fee bid writing to sign writing and Training! Please visit our website www.saafinance.com/saaf-services/ for more information.
If you are looking for a new service or would like to change your current supplier we are happy to assist with recommending alternative suppliers or offering support with your procurement/tender process. Please contact Emma
Cripwell using the details below.
SAAF Annual Conference
SAAF will be hosting an annual conference in partnership with PS Financials later in the calendar year, please ensure
you look out for your invitation. Further details will be emailed to you next term.
Phone: 0115 975 2400 Email: [email protected] Website: www.saafinance.com
We look forward to seeing you at the next Nottingham ASBM conference.
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National Association of
School Business Management
www.nasbm.co.uk
The last few weeks have seen the evolution of the standards from an initial concept into the first full iteration, which
has been developed through the collaboration of the practitioner consultation group, the stakeholder steering board
and sector experts, and has been overseen by CIPFA and the association.
This development has seen much discussion on the nature and role of our profession and its future evolution. Effective
School Business Management is not the responsibility of an individual although in many cases many elements may
reside with an SBM or equivalent. In some cases those responsible and accountable for School Business Management
will have little hands on involvement; they may direct, deploy or outsource. In other cases those responsible are also
heavily involved in the doing. For the majority it’s probably a mix of the two.
The blueprint for effective School Business Management will celebrate, recognise and articulate the very best practice
and approach to each of the agreed functional areas. The statements made under each segment of the standards will
be sufficiently robust and high level to accommodate every school phase and type where overarching principles apply
to all.
We are on track to share the full proposed version of the national standards framework with the sector at the start of
May and we would encourage you all to mark this consultation in your diary and ensure that you engage in the future
of your profession. This consultation will be hosted on the NASBM website and will be open to everyone, no membership of the association will be required.
We will be sharing the link for the consultation with all affiliated local group representatives and be asking them to
share this information with their members. The development of national professional standards for the profession is
one that should and must be collaborative.
Stephen Morales
Executive Director
NASBM
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[email protected]
www.nottinghamasbm.co.uk
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Chair
Karen Bonser, The National CofE Academy, Hucknall
E-Mail: [email protected]
Vice Chair/Treasurer
Jane Fowkes, School Consultant
E-Mail: [email protected]
or [email protected]
Membership Secretary
Trina Ridgill, Colonel Frank Seely School, Calverton
E-Mail: [email protected]
Sponsorship / Exhibitions
Clare Stokes, Newark Orchard Special School
E-Mail: [email protected]
Schools Forum/Business Network
Anne Hall, Carlton Central Jnr School
Events/Fundraising & Marketing E-Mail: [email protected]
Co-ordinator
Nottinghamshire County Council Liaison/ Kirstie Phillips, Nottinghamshire County Council
Legal & Insurance Advice E-Mail: [email protected]
Nottingham City Liaison/
Frances Rowland, Nottingham City Council
Workshop Provision
Email: [email protected]
IT Management
Craig Wilkie, eLearning Team
E-Mail: [email protected]
Venue Co-ordinator
Erica Fletcher
E-Mail: [email protected]
Sponsor/Marketing Support
Les Marshall, Schools Advisory Service
[email protected]
Sponsor/Finance Trainer
Vickie Lievesley, Finance Consultant
E-Mail: [email protected]
Sponsor/Business Trainer, Jason Foster, CEFM
Finance & HR Partners
[email protected]
For further information please email [email protected]