Helping you raise and maintain standards
Our range of services is designed to provide the support your in-house team needs to meet key goals, helping to improve efficiency, performance and decision-making.
Our Services
Strategic Advice
Project Management
Financial Management
HR Support
ICT Consultancy
Training
Strategic Advice
We provide support and advice for decision-makers, including directors, school heads and governors, free school proposers and charity trustees:
- Business operations strategy development
- Defining strategic imperatives
- Developing property asset management strategies
- Planning and review of staffing structures
- Long-term procurement planning
For schools in particular, we offer:
- Assistance with school development plans
- Management of legacy reserves for the benefit of current and future students
- Project delivery support for existing schools converting to academy trust status or becoming part of a multi-academy trust
Project Management
Using a PRINCE II approach, we can manage a wide variety of projects on your behalf. We’ll handle every aspect, from selecting suppliers through a tendering process to completion on time and on budget, ensuring all KPIs are met along the way:
- Construction, from refurbishment to new build
- Development of new facilities
- Fixtures and fittings design
- ICT network and infrastructure
- Marketing and communications
Financial Management
Our qualified accountants are available to help your organisation’s finances run smoothly, even in challenging times:
- Accounting system selection, review, advice and training
- Cost review
- Finance operations
- Finance procedures and processes
- Financial health checks
- Financial planning
- Independent checking of financial controls, systems, transactions and risks
- Internal audit or peer review services
- Management accounts preparation
- Preparing figures to support management decision-making
- Resource optimisation
- Statutory annual accounts
HR Support
We can help you optimise your human resources systems and processes as well as your workforce:
- Automatic pension enrolment
- HR policy review and development
- HR process audits
- HR software selection and installation
- Management of grievance, capabilities and disciplinary cases
- Payroll
- Recruitment
- Workforce optimisation (including redundancy)
ICT Consultancy
We offer a range of ICT consultancy and support services to help you improve your organisation’s operational efficiency:
- Accounting software support and training
- Fully managed ICT services
- ICT health checks
- ICT strategy and planning
- Mobile device integration (including creating secure 1-2-1 or bring your own device (BYOD) environments)
- Technical assurance
Training
In addition to supplementing your in-house expertise with our own, we can help you boost your internal knowledge and skills base with a range of training options:
- Accounting software (including Excel, HCSS Accounting and FPS, Resource 32000, PS Financials, Sage and SIMS)
- Budgeting for non-accountants
- Data protection and freedom of information (FOI)
- Health and safety
- ICT support
- Managing sickness and absence
- Portable appliance testing (PAT)
- PRINCE II project management with accreditation