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Securing funding for your school playground
With primary school children spending up to 20% of their time on the playground, it’s crucial for SBLs to find keep reading
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How to create a safe and supportive learning environment
Student success and wellbeing are tied to a safe and supportive learning environment, so how can you make your school keep reading
Procurement
Where to access free procurement advice
Free and impartial advice and guidance you can access from procurement specialists about buying goods and services can be beneficial keep reading
Procurement
Time to talk energy: buy, use and generate well
SBLs have, and continue to, spend an awful lot of their time and energy strategically thinking about how they can keep reading
Procurement
Collaborating on procurement
School business professional and executive coach, David Carne, offers guidance on making collaborative procurement work for your school in the keep reading
Procurement
Three ways you can promote diversity in your school
Schools are at the heart of the community; therefore, they should represent the diversity of the community by promoting equality, keep reading
Procurement
Putting your suppliers on notice
David Carne, executive business manager at Cardinal Griffin Catholic College, explains why he signed – and cancelled – a supplier keep reading
Procurement
How to be aware of cognitive bias in your school decision making processes
Dr Fiona Aubrey-Smith, director of One Life Learning, explains how your cognitive bias could be affecting your decision-making We are seeing keep reading
Procurement
Hiring a new head
Conny Brandt, SBL at Peterhouse School, takes us through the steps her school took to recruit a new headteacher My keep reading
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How to find a DfE-approved framework for your school
A quick guide to finding quality-checked suppliers of goods and services for your school This service provided by the DfE keep reading
