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How to monitor and scrutinise the budget in finance committee meetings
Find out what to do before your finance committee meetings and use our questions to help you scrutinise the budget throughout the year. It's a long read, but it'll help you go through your budget with a fine-tooth comb.
- Approving the budget: questions to ask (finance committee)
- Approving the budget: questions to ask (full board)
- Budget cuts: role of governors
- Coronavirus: how your budget is affected
- Efficient staffing budgets
- Governors and trustees supplying schools with goods or services
- Local governing bodies (LGB): how to monitor value for money
- Local governing bodies: your role in school finance and budgets
- Pupil premium: spending
- Refusing to approve the school budget
- Setting the budget
- The budget approval process in maintained schools
- The budget approval process in MATs Updated
- The budget approval process in single academies Updated
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