Quality assure your school resource management with SchoolMark

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Is your school resource management supporting better outcomes for your pupils and students?

Every element of your resource management should support your school or trusts’ ultimate goal of providing your young people with access to an outstanding education. But how can you ensure each aspect of your resource management is working effectively?

Get SchoolMark accredited

SchoolMark is the quality assurance scheme developed in consultation with the Department for Education and awarded by the Institute of School Business Leadership. Providing you with a 360-degree assessment of your school or trusts’ resource strategy and management, SchoolMark recognises best practice and delivers a roadmap for improvement.

Benefits

    • iconReduced costs and greater efficiencies in your budget
    • icon Maximising the impact of your spend for students
  • iconEnsured compliance with DfE and ESFA requirements
  • iconDemonstrated transparency and robust financial systems
  • iconImproved financial planning
  • iconReduced audit requirements
  • iconImproved governance and trustee monitoring of spend
  • iconReduced workload to meet internal scrutiny requirements
  • iconBest practice recognised and celebrated

Find out more about why SchoolMark could be great for your school or trust and more about how the process of applying for the accreditation

“The external validation that SchoolMark provides has given Symphony Learning Trust the confidence that we are working to an excellent standard."
Talvinder Tundell
Talvinder Tundell
CFO, Symphony Learning Trust
“The SchoolMark process provides a roadmap for improvement, helping every school to maximise their resources to ensure the best possible education for their pupils and students."
Stephen Morales
Stephen Morales
CEO, Institute of School Business Management
"As one of the leading trusts in the country, ATT is committed to continuous improvement across all aspects of trust management and is proud to be one of the first recipients of the SchoolMark Accreditation."
Debbie Clinton
Debbie Clinton
CEO Academies Transformation Trust
"SchoolMark has helped us to exercise our duties as trustees by providing independent verification that our trust's resource management systems and procedures follow best practice."
Nigel Harrison
Nigel Harrison
Chair of Trustees, Symphony Learning Trust
Assessment

Assessment

Evidence

Evidence

Review

Review

Roadmap

Roadmap

Accreditation

Accreditation