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Diary of a headteacher: There simply isn’t enough money

Trying to protect education provision and staffing levels are two priorities for school leaders, but when budgets are so painfully and obviously insufficient, it leaves us with no easy answers...

School budgets are a major headache for headteachers. It is one of the key aspects of the role of a head, but it is, in most cases, the part of the job that most of us are the least prepared for.

We are teachers by trade, not accountants, and it is not until you sit there in the headteacher’s chair and hold the responsibility as chief accounting officer that it really dawns on you that you are responsible for successfully managing the multi-million pound budget that sits open on your Excel spreadsheet.

If that wasn’t hard enough, couple it with a huge paucity of funding and you are left with an extremely challenging situation for experienced heads, let alone new ones.

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