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Schools rely upon good solid budget plans and regular monitoring to survive the inevitable twists and turns that the school year provides. Accurate budget monitoring reports provide the necessary information about a schools’ spending patterns and assist the schools’ management or finance staff to recognise and provide realistic forecasts. Good financial management in schools essentially comes from maintaining knowledge, this is achieved through accurate budget monitoring.

There are significant advantages of using HCSS to create a ‘snapshot’. Consider that you ...

Civica is the accounting software used by South Gloucestershire Council. This session will take users through the General Ledger and Purchasing side of the system.

There will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions during the session.

Open to all school staff who use Civica but especially useful to new users.

This course costs £30 for South Gloucestershire Schools (£45 for academies and non LEA schools)                    The cost will be adjusted by the admin team before charges are made.

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Cost centres can be used in CIVICA to record transactions for specific areas of income or expenditure for example pupil premium, PE Grant, SEND or extended services.

Using cost centres properly can reduce the need for supplementary spreadsheets, reduce reconciling queries, assist with statutory reporting, improve transparency and support Governor monitoring & informed decision making.

This session will demonstrate:

• how they can be used
• how to run enquiries and produce reports.

There will be plenty of opportunities to ask questions durin ...

Do you know what DFC is?

What can you spend it on? What can’t you spend it on? How or when can you use revenue funding to pay for a capital project? How do you account for it in Civica?

All these questions and more will be answered in this session. We will be joined by Caroline Walsh from the Corporate Capital team so if there is anything you ever wanted to know about Capital income and spending, please come along.

There will be plenty of opportunities to ask your own questions during the session.

Open to all school staff with financial responsibilities ...

This network for subject leaders will provide information about national and local priorities, including the latest developments in primary English; advice and guidance to support the strategic leadership of English and opportunities to share best practice amongst schools.

This course is for SAS schools only.

Delegates will be contacted three days before the session with details of how to access the online training, which will be sent via a link to the email address on your CPD Online account. Please ensure that the email address you have registered with is correct. If it ne ...

Revised budget visits take place during October and November with submission to Corporate Finance due by 30 November each year. As part of your subscribed service, your SFO prepares and reconciles information to ensure your data is correct and your visit is efficient.

This session will cover the preparation your SFO completes, how to complete the revised budget checklist (sent to all schools in September) and how you can prepare beforehand to assist and ensure your revised budget submission is accurate, achievable and that variances can be explained.

There will be plenty of ...

This is a free training course for HR for Schools subscribing primary and secondary schools, to provide essential HR and payroll processing related information to support new SBMs and School Administrators new to their role. It is also a great refresher course for those who have previously attended or been in post a while. The employee lifecycle procedures course aims to give you the necessary information in order to effectively carry out the HR administrative and contractual side of your role.

Content covered includes: 

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With the largest percentage of every school’s expenditure being on staffing costs, it is essential that all schools undertake regular payroll reconciliations. A good payroll reconciliation will be thorough check of expected employee costs per month to actual employee costs.

An effective reconciliation should not only identify incorrect staffing forecasts, but also incorrect payments to staff, creating a ‘win-win’ situation.

During this session we will show you how to use the payroll reconciliation function in HCSS.

There will be plenty of opportunit ...

This session will concentrate on examining the staff variances thrown up when producing a budget monitoring report.

There are many things that can initially result in large variances against staffing. Anticipated pay rises, maternity, leave without pay, overtime are all areas that need manual adjustments calculated to ensure your expected outturn is accurate.

This session will take you through how to identify & explain genuine variances and how & why adjustments need to be made.

We recommend you attend the Budget Monitoring in HCSS (snapshots)

The nationally established Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) course trains skilled teaching assistants to deliver interventions for emotionally vulnerable pupils. Trainee ELSAs attend 6 full training days and subsequently carry out supervised practice over the course of the year leading to ELSA certification. It is also a pre-requisite that ELSA line managers attend a 1 ½ hour MS Teams twilight session following Day 1 of the course.

The cost for this course is £665 per delegate, which includes six full days training, four subsequent supervision sessions, the p ...