A Special Message for Schools
As you return to work after the summer recess, the reality of the Chancellor's June Budget statement will be hitting home.
With education spending in England set to be cut by as much as 25% over the next four years, the question has to be asked "how do you maintain the teaching levels and achieve the desired cuts?"
Our children are the future of this country of ours - so we must all strive to maintain the high levels of teaching and indeed the facilites themselves.
You will already be asking seraching questions as to where savings can be made.
The government is now urging all schools and colleges to outsource services from local businesses whose contact details can be found in publications such as "The Headteachers and Bursars Handbook of Procurement 2010/11".
CPA's founder, Jim Charmichael-Prince, has worked very closely with the private education sector previously. In the wake of the demise of the "Assisted Places Scheme" Jim worked with St Mary's College, Crosby on a "best business practice" inititate to expore ways in which the effects of the cuts might be minimised. Jim's paper "Bridging the Gap" was very well recieved by the Governers.
Jim now concentrates on his Wigan-based Accountancy and Bookkeeping Practice, which also incorporates a Payroll Bureau.
Some schools and colleges will now be looking to outsource services such as payroll, general bookkeeping, production of periodic management accounts and annual financial reports. If your establishment is in such a position, then please call us to arrange an informal discussion.
Jim would welcome a meeting with you or your Board of Governers to expore ways in which your payroll, bookkeeping and other accountancy services can be outsourced and thus make a substational contribution to the savings target being imposed upon you.