Guidance: Find, join or create a network for school business professionals

Updated: Added 5 networks to the 'Find a school business professional network' document and amended one entry.

This guide describes how business professionals working in schools can join or create a school business professional network. Networks help professionals to connect and share information.

The school business professional networks directory includes groups that provide peer-to-peer support to help with a broad range of work-related activity, including buying for schools.

You can find potential networks by regional schools commissioner (RSC) region. Inclusion in the directory does not constitute a recommendation by the Department for Education.

All levels of staff can benefit from being part of a network. A network offers many opportunities, including:

sharing experience and best practice between members and the wider schools sector creating an on-call community to resolve problems quickly, saving time and money getting better value for money through buying together sharing local benchmarking data linking to wider local, regional and national networks supporting innovation being a communication channel between school business professionals, professional bodies and the Department for Education (DfE) promoting local opportunities and providing peer support for members

Find out how a school business manager (SBM) established a peer-support network of 50 schools to share innovative strategies.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/join-or-create-a-network-for-school-business-professionals

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