Business Managers/Bursars
06 July 2022
Discussions at this meeting included:
- Budget reviews and submissions including BFR report
- Audits including GDPR, External Audits and Health & Safety
- Every and updates over the summer break including policies
- External contracts and feedback to contractors on the services that are provided to the organisation
- Training needs and wants of a Business Manager/Bursar
- Reminder to encourage colleagues to complete the wellbeing survey
- Access to the bulletin to try to include key information to be sent once per week to minimise the email traffic
- Exit Interviews and leaver checklists
- Induction processes and details of where the information is saved to access for new staff joining us
- Data Plan (our HR Provider) joined us to deliver the contract management module on the HR software with a view to roll out asap.
11 May 2022
Discussions at this meeting included:
- School led tutoring grant
- Budget and final submissions
- Internal Audit updates
- H&S updates
- Every and reminder to complete weekly checks
- Scholarpack and the admissions process
- Training upcoming and future proposals
- Apprenticeships, the funding and allocations
- Return to work interviews following absence and recording appropriately
17th March 2022
Discussions at this meeting included:
- Budget setting assumptions for 2022/23 academic year
- Review of personnel files
- Recruitment and the need to involve the Trust in all recruitment discussions
- Apprenticeships and the use of the Apprenticeship Levy
- Staff Sickness & Absence Insurance
- Internal audits, including scheduled dates and feedback from audits that have already taken place
- Asset registers and the importance of these being current
- Lockdown procedures for schools - templates shared for schools to adapt to fit their own environments
- Cyber update including requirements for RPA cover
- Risk registers
- Implementation of the Scholarpack App
19th January 2022
Discussions at this meeting included:
- Year end journals
- Curriculum funding for our schools
- Update in respect of the new central admin function for Access Budgets and the impact this has on our schools
- Standardisation of personnel files
- Confirmation of dates for internal audits
- Overview of Every
- Trust 20 Mile March and SMac principles
- Current vacancies within the Trust