Educational
Procurement Centre
(EPC) website
The aim of the Educational Procurement Centre (EPC) programme,
fully funded by the DCSF, is to provide schools with the skills,
tools and support to help them buy better. EPC works across the
schools sector to promote and support more sustainable procurement
practices and effective contract management.
Guide to
forecasting pupil numbers in school-place planning
website
This guide available from the Teachernet website is for
local authority commissioners involved in planning and organising
school places, particularly those with direct responsibility for
producing pupil forecasts. It suggests ways of improving the
accuracy of pupil forecasts and give examples of good
practice. The guide covers sections on why you need to
produce forecasts, provides guidance on making your projections,
offers advice on taking account of housing developments amongst
others.
Next Practice
in System Leadership – Cumbria-Furness. Case study PDF (39.1
KB)
Social and economic challenges have encouraged
schools and colleges to build strategically on existing
collaborative arrangements in order to ensure that transformation
in learning also contributed significantly towards better social
and economic outcomes for the communities they served.
Next Practice
in System Leadership – Haven. Case study PDF (32.7
KB)
Haven is a partnership of three secondary
schools serving an area of high unemployment and low participation
in post-16 education. The Next Practice Project centers on the
development of a vehicle for making a collaborative and coherent
enhanced post-16 offer to the young people in the community.
Next Practice
in System Leadership – The Hailsham Partnership. Case study PDF
(36.7 KB)
Hailsham is a partnership of five schools, one
secondary and four primaries. The secondary school, Hailsham
Community College, was established some time ago as a full service
extended school, and the Partnership has been working together to
build on that experience to offer whole town provision of a range
of services including education.
Next Practice
in System Leadership – Winsford Education Partnership. Case study
PDF (37.2 KB)
Winsford has pockets of high deprivation and
about 23% of Winsford children are educated in schools outside the
town. The local authority has been undertaking a school
rationalisation review (TLC) as well as a review of special
educational needs provision across the Authority.
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