The Institute of School Business Leadership has always defended initiatives aimed at improving practice. In particular, we have played a central role in the school resource management adviser programme.
We welcomed the opportunity to see school business professionals deployed as system leaders in a similar capacity to National Leaders of Education and National Leaders of Governance. Our aim, however, has never been to support reckless cost-cutting objectives.
Neither, I would argue, is that the aim of senior officials presiding over this initiative, and to be fair to Baroness Barran, the minister responsible for this area of work. She has listened carefully to the objections and criticism some have levied at the programme.
