Barnet Grid for Learning

Useful Websites for Heads, Business Managers and Bursars

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	School Circular	Copies of all School Circulars and electronic enclosures
	Barnet Online	The London Borough of Barnet main website.  A wide range of information including job vacancies.
	DCSF	The main government website of the Department for Children, Schools and Families
	Financial Management Standard in Schools	Full information about FMSIS
	Learning Skills Council	National Information about post 16 education and funding
	Value for Money Website	Government website designed to help schools use their money most effectively
	Section 52 Returns	Standard Barnet statements of school and education budgeted expenditure
	Teachernet	Large website covering a wide range of matters including funding - not just for teachers!
	Schools Forum	A direct link to the Schools Forum pages of Teachernet
	National Bursars Association	Lots of useful information for anyone involved in the financial management of schools. You don't have to be a member to use this site.
	National College for School Leadership	A wide variety of online learning materials for school management . Some are publicly available and some require you to be participating in one of the NCSL programmes.
	School Benchmarking	This site enables you to prepare charts that compare your school's income and expenditure profile with that of similar schools.
	GovernorNet	Information for school governors, including responsibilities, training, law, current issues and much more.
	DCSF CFR Framework	CFR Framework
	Three year funding settlement	Government's three year funding settlement for 2008-11 with a minimum funding guarantee to schools of 2.1% for each of the next three years.
	Early Years Funding	Implementation of a Single Funding Formula for Early Years: Interim Guidance (From http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters/)
	Free Early Education Entitlement	The Extension to the Free Early Education Entitlement Offer for 25% of 3- and 4–year-olds: Interim Guidance for LAs (From http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/everychildmatters/)
	Every Child Matters	Newly released site combining 3 old ones including the old Every Child Matters webpages
	Edubase	Find details of any educational establishment
	DSG Review	Progress on the government review of the Dedicated Schools Grant from 2011.