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Payroll, HR, insurance and
telecoms costs needn’t take
31 schools save £61,000 on
up your whole budget. supply insurance
Don’t under estimate the amount of We were asked by a group of 31 primary We selected the key requirements for each
money you spend on ‘other’ services, schools, which had purchased supply school such as excess days, maternity cover
these costs can quickly mount up, leaving insurance from their Local Authority for many requirements, levels of stress cover, as well as
your school budget looking tighter than years, to establish whether their existing uniform information from all providers such
you’d imagined. Catering to field trips, provision remained cost effective and as additional benefits and whether their
insurance to textbooks and software to provide like for like comparisons from a cover included pre-existing conditions and
professional services can all equal range of providers. We were able to identify created a template to show these specific
significant savings… £61,000 of savings at an average of £2,000 requirements like for like against current
per school, with one school making savings costs, highlighting the potential savings from
of more than £12,000. each provider.
We developed a simple, consistent data This process enabled head teachers to
collection tool which enabled the schools to quickly see which of the quotes most closely
individually provide us with summary staffing matched their requirements.
information and recent absence data. We
Head teachers of small primary schools often
then provided data in a consistent way to all
lack the resources, time or capacity to liaise
potential providers to ensure that we received
with multiple suppliers (all keen to do
like for like information from suppliers and
business), be able to compare like for like
tailored quotations for individual schools.
proposals and then make sound decisions
Comparing insurance quotations, when each based upon not only price but a wide range
is provided in a different format and often of other factors important to their individual
with different terms and conditions does not school’s circumstances. We can help you to
help schools to make balanced decisions. do this by using our own resources to do the
We therefore developed a template, tailored time-consuming data gathering for you.
to each individual school to enable like for
like comparison.
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