Bryan Slater Director of Education	Distribution
	Headteachers of Primary and Secondary Schools c.c. Chair of Governing Body

The attached document is provided for your information:

INFORMATION	Title	Financial Benchmarking 2003/04
	Summary of contents	Covering Letter Financial Benchmarking results for 2003/04 (using actual expenditure/income as recorded in the Council’s mainframe accounting system) Individual School Comparison (for Chair of Governors)
	Associated documents	School Budget Control Reports Budget Share for 2003/04 ‘Guide to Financial Benchmarking’ booklet
	Date	16 July 2004
	Effective from	16 July 2004
	LEA Contact	Karl Murphy-Barnes	(	01603 222079
	E-mail address	karl.murphy-barnes@norfolk.gov.uk
	Norfolk Self Review reference	8. How well does the school use its resources?
	Document reference	MI 148/04

FINANCIAL BENCHMARKING 2003/04

Attached are the financial benchmarking results for the year ended 31 March 2004.

All schools have been assigned to a family group, which contains schools of the same type with similar pupil numbers, for financial comparison. If you would like to be placed into another family group, please complete the ‘Request for revised/other family groups’ form at the back of the headteachers pack.

In previous years, graphs have been issued to aid comparisons between schools. These have not been issue, but are available on the EF & ICT Services website, as well as an updated guide to financial benchmarking, at: http://efs.norfolk.gov.uk/

If you have any queries, or would like hard copies of the graphs or the guidance notes, please contact Karl Murphy-Barnes on the above number.

Yours sincerely

Hilary Bradshaw

Management Accountant