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Friday, March 14, 2025
What is the ‘curriculum’ element of Integrated Curriculum and Financial Planning?
The idea of ICFP is that it generates metrics which act as ‘question starters’ for the school. For instance, if …
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Friday, February 21, 2025
Why have we developed ICFP Software?
Integrated Curriculum and Financial Planning (ICFP) has been a central element of our work for many years; both the work …
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Sunday, February 16, 2025
ICFP and Budget Assumptions
Budgeting is a gloriously messy process. Across the country finance professionals are doing what seems unnatural for such a process …
Read MoreFriday, October 25, 2024
Peter Tomkins
Why use ICFP?
The ICFP process is about providing useful management information to school leaders and governors/trustees. It is not, much to some leaders’ surprise, about levelling all …
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Peter Tomkins
ICFP vs Benchmarking
Integrated Curriculum and Financial Planning can sometimes be dismissed as just a rather fancy name for benchmarking, but they are two very different processes. The …
Read moreFriday, November 01, 2024
Peter Tomkins
ICFP Metrics – Now what?
Calculating the integrated curriculum and financial planning metrics are the easy part of the process, particularly when you use a tool like ICFP.school. The more …
Read moreSunday, November 10, 2024
Peter Tomkins
Is Integrated Curriculum and Financial Planning better than Curriculum Led Financial Planning
The short answer is no. The longer answer is that they are basically the same process, just with slightly different titles. Integrated Curriculum and Financial …
Read moreSunday, November 17, 2024
Peter Tomkins
Can I use ICFP metrics as KPIs?
The Academy Trust Handbook used to mandate Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as an element of monthly management accounts; this was removed from the 2023 edition …
Read moreMonday, December 02, 2024
Peter Tomkins
Thresholds, benchmarks and metric ranges
The longer you spend in education – and I am just shy of forty years as a teacher, headteacher, consultant and director of TSO Education …
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