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School business management partnership advisers

School business management partnership advisers provide operational advice on the setting up and sustainability of partnership arrangements for school business management. Through face-to-face and online activities, they can help you consider a collaborative approach.

The advisers have been drawn from schools involved in the National College's school business management demonstration projects. They are experienced school business managers operating over a cluster of schools.

If you would like to discuss school business management partnership opportunities, please contact one of the advisers listed in the following table.

To contact a School Business Manager (SBM) partnership adviser, please get in touch via the email addresses listed below. More detailed profiles of the advisers are also available.

The SBM development guide is a support tool for schools and other organisations wishing to recruit and effectively deploy a SBM or School Business Director (SBD), in a single school or across a cluster of schools. The guide gives the user the opportunity to learn from the experiences of others through the case studies, videos clips and summary evaluation findings found within.

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Please note, the advisers work on a national level so they do not have to be in your region. View a map, which shows the location of each partnership adviser.

School business management partnership adviser	Contact details	Demonstration project	Local authority	Region
David Allen, School Business Director	sbmpadviser@litchamhigh.net	Service level agreement and school business management services provided by one school to others Litcham	Norfolk	Eastern
John Bridgman, Headteacher	sbmpadviser@titan.org.uk	Team approach Titan	Birmingham	West Midlands
Michelle Charlton, School Business Manager Danny Eason, Headteacher	sbmpadviser@durhamlearning.net	Project schools are self sufficient in shared school business management service provision Fishburn	Durham	North East
Karen Dredge and Sherri Hawkins, school business managers	sbmpadviser@bournemouth.gov.uk	The school business manager role serving a federation or other discrete entity (special) Bournemouth	Bournemouth	South West
Jean Jackson	sbmpadviser@live.co.uk	School business manager serving a locality Dudley	Dudley	West Midlands
Peter James, School Business Manager and Joyce James, Education Development Service Adviser	sbmpadviser@we-learn.com	Local authority match funded Nuneaton	Warwickshire	West Midlands
Vanessa Lloyd, School Business Manager	sbmpadviser@walney.cumbria.sch.uk	School business manager supporting feeder schools and developing a collaboration with secondary schools, special schools, further education colleges and an academy Barrow	Cumbria	North West
Nina Siddle, School Business Manager	sbmpadviser@eastriding.gov.uk	Local authority driving the project Withernsea	East Riding	Yorkshire and the Humber
Louise Staunton, School Business Director	sbmpadviser@wellacre.org	Service level agreement and school business management services provided by one school to others Wellacre	Trafford	North West
Clarissa Williams, School Business Director	sbmpadviser@westwoodcollege.staffs.sch.uk	The school business management role serving a federation or other discrete entity (rural) Westwood	Staffordshire	West Midlands

For further information see:

• School business management partnership advisers frequently asked questions