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School expenditure

Managing your school's budget is one of the most challenging responsibilities of the management team and governors. A new area of the NCSL site has been set up to help manage the budget.
http://www.ncsl.org.uk/media store/image2/fin_mgmt/index.htm

There is also a section dedicated to school finance and property on GovernorNet.
http://www.governornet.co.uk /publishList.cfm?CFID=17516702&CFTOKEN=86 128903&topicAreaId=5

If you want to compare you school's expenditure to that of other schools, see the financial benchmarking tool.
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk /management/schoolfunding/schoolfinance/