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Effective Estate Management Systems for Multi-Site Success

Seminar Brief

Effective estate management has become a critical focus for schools, with changing DfE requirements and increasing expectations across multiple sites. In this seminar, Jonny will guide you through the role that robust systems and processes play in managing estates efficiently. He will explore how to ensure estate management features prominently in your budget and operational planning, and how to prepare for unforeseen challenges. Using examples from multi-academy trusts and maintained schools, Jonny will demonstrate how consistent, systemised approaches can transform estate management across diverse school settings.

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In this seminar Jonny will explore: 

  • Developing a clear vision for your estate strategy underpinned by effective, repeatable systems and processes

  • Implementing centralised systems to manage estate activities across multiple sites, ensuring consistency and efficiency

  • Using data and technology to streamline estate management, optimise resource allocation and support proactive decision-making

Take home points:

  • Implement systematic reviews of estate conditions across multiple sites to identify, prioritise and plan necessary works

  • Understand how detailed processes for even the smallest tasks can drive consistency and excellence in estate management

  • Learn how integrated systems can help you coordinate projects, manage budgets and maintain standards across multiple locations

Jonny Coates

head of business & financial support services 

About the speaker:

Jonny is head of business & financial support services at Nicholas Postgate Catholic Academy Trust, a group of 38 schools in Teesside, North Yorkshire and York, and has been working in the education sector since 2010. To date, he has completed CSBM, IOSH Managing Safely, L7 CIPFA Financial and Operational Leadership and Management qualification. Since 2010, he has worked in two maintained primaries and two maintained secondaries and as COO of a MAT in Durham. Jonny was appointed as a Trustee of ISBL in 2021 and serves as Vice Chair of Trustees.

This session is for:

School leaders including CEOs, COOs, CFOs, SBMs, trustees, and governors responsible for strategic estate management in schools operating across multiple sites.

This session can be attended at:
EdExec LIVE North

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