Best Practice

Staff restructuring and difficult decisions

Senior leadership
A thorough, methodical and sensitive approach is vital when it comes to making difficult staffing decisions in the face of struggling budgets, says primary trust leader Karen Burns

Staff restructures can be an emotional and troubling time for everyone in the school community.
Unfortunately, in this age of struggling school budgets and growing pressures on expenditure they are a reality in many schools and trusts.

For an executive school leader, the strategic management of resources involves the recruitment and management of talented school business specialists and the establishment of a culture of financial efficiency across organisations for the benefit of all pupils.

As an executive leader, for example, you have responsibility for ensuring that procurement processes deliver value for money, that school budgets are well managed, that colleagues are effectively deployed, that accountability is distributed appropriately, and that you use financial planning and benchmarking tools to inform the actions of your teams.

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