ICFP: The Magical Marriage of Education and Financial Planning
A smarter way to shape curriculum, staffing and budget
ICFP is one of the most effective tools for managing rising costs and staffing pressures. With staff making up around 80 percent of school spend, even small shifts in deployment can make a significant difference. This session shows how integrated curriculum and financial planning can improve curriculum design, strengthen staffing decisions and support long term sustainability. It focuses on practical, proactive ways to use ICFP so you can deliver value for money without compromising the offer for pupils.
In this session we explore
How ICFP aligns curriculum ambition with financial reality
Using staffing data, class size and timetable structure to maximise the impact of your team
How SMRA style analysis strengthens ICFP and highlights inefficiencies
Using ICFP for scenario planning and forward budgeting
Presenting ICFP findings to SLT, governors and trustees
Take home points
A clear understanding of how ICFP improves staffing deployment and value for money
Practical steps to build an ICFP model that supports long term planning
Insight into how SMRA aligned metrics reveal risks and opportunities
Tools to turn ICFP outputs into evidence for strategic decision making
This session is for
School business leaders, CFOs, COOs, heads and senior leaders who want to use ICFP to shape curriculum, staffing and financial strategy in a more proactive and sustainable way.
Matthew Clements-Wheeler
About the speaker
Matthew Clements-Wheeler is a respected authority on the non-teaching side of running schools. For nearly 30 years he’s helped schools, trusts and charities turn chaos into strategy and panic into policy, working with leaders across the UK and internationally. A former Chair of the Institute of School Business Leadership, Matthew now spends much of his time persuading boards, governments and senior leaders to listen to the people who actually know how the place runs.