What's been happening this week at Schools Financial Services

Financial Management and Best Practice Tips:

Contingency Plans - processes for managing school finances in the event of a disaster.

• Back-ups of the school’s systems and data should be taken daily and should be stored in a secure place away from the server and in a fireproof cabinet or safe (unless purchasing remote backup)
• Manual records of contingency plans for processes and policies should be kept so they can be quickly referred
  to in the event of a system failure
• Please see Business Continuity Management on KELSI for further details.

Have you booked your place on the Summer Finance Information Groups (FIGs)? Finance staff, bursars and school business managers are invited to join us from Monday 13 to Thursday 16 and Monday 20 June at venues across the county. Book your place on CPD Online.

Kent Special Schools - Finance staff who will be involved in using the Budget Planning Software to produce monitoring reports for strategic stakeholders are invited to the Budget Monitoring for Kent Special Schools - using the Budget Planning Software (BPS) 2016-17 training. The course will be held on Monday 20 June at the MIDAS Centre, Meadowfield School, Sittingbourne. Book your place on CPD Online.

Don't forget to follow us on Twitter for news, updates and info. We understand many primary schools cannot access Twitter so we will still be using KELSI and eBulletins to communicate information in addition to Twitter.

Contact Details

Schools Financial Services
Telephone: 03000 41 54 15
Email: schoolsfinancialservices@kent.gov.uk