Where schools are working
in partnership or collaboration, we can help you to
secure greater economies by assessing your overall
spending power as a group, as well as looking at creative
ways of raising investment, to improve building stock
and ICT infrastructure.
So, how do you become even
more efficient than you currently are, whilst also
achieving even better outcomes? Place Group offers
support from expert advisers who are focused on identifying
savings and developing strategies for implementation,
and we achieve this via our Efficiency Review service.
Typically clients come to
us for advice and support on the following:
- Identifying potential
areas for efficiency and collaboration, which lead
not only to savings but also equally importantly
to improved services and even surplus revenue generation
- Highlighting areas of
expertise and potential income generation
- Recommending delivery
models which are appropriate to their collaboration
or partnership – for example school companies,
mutuals, cooperatives and trusts
- Advising on appropriate
investment vehicles
- Help in project planning,
and forecasting what the partnership or collaboration
might look like in five years time
- Advising on how to build
consensus and win the hearts and minds of all involved
How we work
If you are in a partnership or collaborative arrangement,
the first thing we do is to undertake a diagnostic
within every school. This provides us with enough
information to see where there is potential duplication
of effort or duplication of contracts, and hence identify
key areas to achieve greatest efficiency and savings.
We then prepare a report
and a presentation for the partnership board, which
explains how to optimise and maximise the power of
the partnership or collaboration of schools. In some
instances, we also prepare a five year plan and a
‘journey of transformation’ that takes
the partnership from its current state to becoming
a lean entity that focuses solely on the delivery
of Teaching and Learning.
As a group of schools you
might be doing this already and may be considering
managing functions and services on behalf of other
schools. Have you considered all of the options available
to you for your new ‘super organisation’?
The value we add
Every client engagement
is different. Some schools have the capacity to implement
solutions under their own steam, some don’t.
Our approach is to define what it is that you need,
and then to provide the appropriate support services.
And we always try to make this cost neutral –
so once we have identified where savings can be made,
we offset our time against those savings.
These are uncertain times
but one thing is an absolute, there will be less money
in your collaboration. So start making it work harder
for you!
If you would like
to chat to us, regardless of where you currently are
on your journey to partnership, please email claire.delaney@place-group.com.
We’ll do our best to help.
