Thanks. We are trying to manage the impact of savings to ensure we don’t lose our capacity to improve what we do. There can be tendency in such circumstances to simply cut anything which is not immediately connected to the teaching process. I’ve seen this done many times throughout my career and the long-term damage this does to the quality and breadth of children’s experiences can take decades to recover.

I’ll post more about this later this week.

I like your approach to budgets but does it still give you the opportunity to retain some funding at the centre to support innovation which is sometimes not evenly distributed?

Good luck with the job application. One definition of lucky that I really like is ‘when preparation meets opportunity’. Looks to me like you have done a lot of preparation and are presented with a wonderful opportunity.

Laurie