With responsibility for budgets, procurement, human resources, site management, office administration and resource allocation, school business managers (SBMs) are as important in keeping schools running as other senior leaders are in keeping teaching and learning on track.
When we think of the role, we typically think of the tasks I have just listed, but analysis by The Key of how SBMs use our website suggests they are moving into new areas.
Comparing article views by SBMs from September to October 2013 with the same period in 2012, we see that they were 61 per cent more likely in 2013 to look at information on engaging parents and carers. The data also shows that SBMs are increasingly interested in articles on working with the governing body (up by 36 per cent), and on pupil health and wellbeing (up by 30 per cent). And their interest in articles related to managing school staff, professional development and performance management has also grown.
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