School Business Manager Champions
Angela Stansfield and Linda Melia have recently started working as School Business Manager Champions within the Greater Manchester Challenge, sharing their expertise with other organisations. They have benefited from a development programme to enable them to provide coaching and mentoring to other schools that are seeking to develop their School Business Managers (or those who manage its function).

Fourth National College SBM International Conference is a great success

The National College, alongside the TDA, successfully hosted the fourth School Business Management International Conference in Manchester two weeks ago, under the banner “Achieving World Class Schools”. Jointly facilitated by the National College and the Association of School Business Officials (ASBO) International from the USA, the Conference demonstrated how the management of school business is now a truly worldwide profession.

Building Schools For The Future – The Secretary of State Responds
Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Education, has responded to the widespread concern about the cancellation of the previous government’s Building Schools for the Future programme. In a letter to the West Midlands Express and Star he set out his reasons for cancelling the programme and explained how “the end of the… scheme doesn’t mean the end of investing in our schools”.