School Finance: Who Do I Contact?

School Finance: Who Do I Contact?

Below is a list of contacts for general day to day queries on finance. If you have a query on an area that is not covered here, please contact your dedicated School Funding Team Officer. All maintained schools have a dedicated officer within the team. 

For a list of officers, contact numbers and the schools they are assigned to please click HERE. (List updated March 2024)

Children’s Services Reception  01274 432111

Area

 

Main Reason for Contacting

Name

Telephone No.

Company / Department

6th Form Funding / Post-16

Queries & Information on 6th Form Funding and post-16 services

Angela Taylor
Matt Findull
Alistair Marshall

01274 439556

EEET (Education, Employment and Enterprise Team

Academy Conversion

Advice on academy conversion process and requirements prior to the conversion date 

Mir Haider

01274 435241

Education Client Services

Academies

The funding of Academies & income modelling for schools potentially aiming for academy status

Dawn Haigh

01274 433775

School Funding Team

Admissions & Appeals

Advice & guidance on admissions to schools and appeals

Rachel Phillips

01274 439200

Admissions Team

Asset Management

Advice on building, assets and safety issues

Sandra Moore

01274 431755

Bradford Council Asset Mgt Dept

Audit

Advice on Council audit and good practice

Karl Pease

01274 432249

Bradford Council Audit Department

Bank Payments (Council)

For unidentified credits/debits received from the Council on your bank statement

Accounts Payable /
Ghaffar Hussain

01274 432873 /
01274 437611

Bradford Council Creditor Payments

Building Schools for the Future

Advice for BSF schools on costs, contracts, service providers & funding

TBC

01274 43808

Bradford Council BSF Team

Business Manager / Bursar Forum (Primary)

Contact with the Primary Bursars Forum (regular meetings, advice & support)

Jenni Taylor /

Kate Evans

j.taylor@paymat.org

k.evans@paymat.org

Pennine Academies Yorkshire

Business Manager / Bursar Forum (Secondary)

Contact with the Secondary Bursars Forum (regular meetings, advice and support)

Ashley Reed

01274 909120

Bradford Diocesan Academy Trust (BDAT)

Capital Funding

Advice on capital allocations and the processing of Devolved Formula Capital (for advice on Capital spending please contact the Capital Team direct on 01274 432656)

Debbie Cussans

01274 434173

School Funding Team

Catering

Queries/info relating to a journal or invoiced charges for school meals provision

TBC

01274 431899

Facilities Management

Census

Advice on completion of the DfE’s termly census and access to census data

Rebecca Caladine /Vicky Jacques

01274 439648 / 01274 437813

IMTDataTeam@bradford.gov.uk

Information Management Team

Children’s Centres

 

Advice on the Funding and Accounting Reporting Requirements for Children’s Centres

Jaclyn McManus

Earlyeducationfund@bradford.gov.uk

 

Bradford Council Early Years and Childcare

Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) 

Queries relating to the CFR Structure or issues relating to the production and upload of your CFR at year end.      Dawn Haigh 01274 433775 School Funding Team

DBS Checks

Information on DBS (CRB) check process and progress

Rehana Swaleh

01274 436285

HR Vetting Service ×

Early Years

Advice on the provision of the Free Entitlement to Nursery education

Dawn Haigh / Lynda Steventon

 

Early Years Team

01274 433775 / 01274 437061(Schools & Maintained Nurseries)


earlyeducationfund@bradford.gov.uk (PVI Providers)

School Funding Team

 

Early Years Team

Energy Management / Carbon Reduction

Advice on contract prices and details and energy saving measures

Kate Smallwood

01274 433885

Environment & Climate Change Unit

Exclusions and Behaviour Support

Advice & guidance on the funding of excluded & included pupils and BACS

Karen Roper

01274 439333

 

Behaviour Support Service

Formula Funding

General queries on how primary & secondary schools are funded, formula funding & Section 251 Budgets

Andrew Redding

 

Debbie Cussans

       

01274 432678

 

 

01274 434173

 

 

School Funding Team

Fraud
 

Advice on suspected Financial misconduct

David Burns

01274 431595

Corporate Fraud

Governors

Advice and support for Governors, access to courses (including the Effective Financial Governance Course) and provision of a clerking service

Christina Low

01274 439400

Leadership & Governance Team ×

Growth Funding

Adjustments to school funding in year for growth in pupil numbers

Andrew Redding

 

Debbie Cussans     

01274 432678

 

 

01274 434173

 

School Funding Team

HCSS (Access Group)

 

Support and guidance on software use

Helpdesk
 

0845 340 4546

 

Access Group
 

Insurance

 

Advice on school insurance responsibilities and claiming processes

Graham Dalby

01274 432781

Council Insurance & Risk Management

Legal Services

Legal Advice on School Issues (contracts, regulations etc)

Joanne Gleeson

01274 432878

Bradford Council Corporate Law Team ×

Looked After Children

The funding of Children Looked After

 

 

 

Queries relating to termly payments in both Bradford and others LA's

Jonathan Cooper 


Fiona Wood
 

Debbie Cussans

01274 436401

 

01274 435280
 


01274 434173

CLA Virtual School Head 
Looked After Children



School Funding Team

Maternity

 

Advice on maternity funding & the allocation of reimbursements to schools

Cathryn Whiteley

01274 435484

HR Advisory Service

New Communities and Traveller Children

Advice on provision for refugees, asylum seekers and children from traveller communities

Kate Hopton

01274 439393

New Communities and Travellers

Passwords

 

Request a login id and password for Bradford Schools Online (BSO website)

Azeem Hussain

01274 435337

Information Management Team

Payroll

 

Queries/info on payments to staff

Nominated Payroll Officer

01274 437546

Bradford Council Payroll ×

Payroll FBS Reports

Queries on Full Budget Share payroll reports uploaded to BSO

Jayne Whitehead

01274 432588

Bradford Council Payroll ×

Procurement

 

Advice on Procurement legislation, good practice and value for money

Michelle Carroll

01274 434656

 

Bradford Council Procurement

Pupil Number Forecasts

Forecasted pupil numbers for future years

Claire Marshall-Swales

01274 439207

School Organisation and Place Planning

Pupil Premium

 

Queries and information on the Pupil Premium  

Debbie Cussans

01274 434173

School Funding Team

Rates

 

Information relating to rates charges for schools

SFT Contact

See SFT Officer Contact List at top of this page

School Funding Team

SAP Reports

Queries on SAP reports uploaded to BSO

SFT Contact

See SFT Officer Contact list at top of this page

School Funding Team

SAP Transactions

 

Unidentified items on SAP prints

SFT Contact

See SFT Officer Contact list at top of this page

School Funding Team

School Companies

Requirement to consult with LA when establishing a school company

Ian Smart

01274 431735

Education Client Services

SIMS

Support and guidance on software use
 

Helpdesk

01274 439300

E-ICT Service ×

Special Educational Needs

 

Funding of SEN Statemented pupils & SEN Formula Funding

Queries relating to the monthly High Needs Funding Statements

Alistair Marshall

 

Dawn Haigh         

 

senfinance@bradford.gov.uk

 

01274 433775

SEND Team

 

School Funding Team

Staff Contracts

 

Queries/info on staff employment issues

HR Contact

01274 436644

HR School Support Service×

VAT

 

Advice on Schools’ VAT issues in first instance

Lynda Steventon

01274 437061

School Funding Team

 

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