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All these documents are only available to download from within a Hertfordshire School. If you wish to access these materials please contact your school. If for any reason this is not practical, then please contact Internal Audit and we will do our best to assist you. Email: internal.audit@ hertscc.gov.uk Tel: 01992 555324

Financial Management Standards in Schools

The detailed information regarding the Financial Management Standard in Schools can be found on the DfES website at:

• www.fmsis.info

Internal Audit have provided further guidance on the evidence they hope to see in school:

Potential FMSiS Shortcomings

Internal Audit recently provided the Schools' Forum with a summary of the principal reasons why schools have not met the DCSF Financial Management Standard in Schools (where this applies). The Schools' Forum requested that this information be made available to all schools and their governors, to assist them to achieve the FMSiS.

• Word 2003, 56kb/5 pages, 22/04/2008, potential_fmsis_shortcomings_apr08.doc

Guide for Clerk to the Governors

A guide to the Financial Management Standard in Schools for the Clerk to the Governors

• Word 2003, 150kb/12 pages, 16/01/2008, fmsis_clerks.doc

FMSiS Evidence Guide

It was agreed with the Hertfordshire Schools' Forum that a FMSiS guide would be produced, that provides examples of the documents, procedures and other forms of evidence that are required to demonstrate that a school meets the Financial Management Standard in Schools.

The Guide has been produced with the help of 14 Hertfordshire secondary schools and all the examples used are real. We will be updating the guidance and we hope to offer examples from primary, middle or special schools in due course.

All secondary schools are subject to the FMSiS and all other schools, with the exception of nursery schools, will be by 31/3/2010 at the latest.

We would like to thank the following secondary schools whose help made it possible for us to produce the guide:

• Adeyfield
• Beaumont
• The Broxbourne
• The Chauncy
• Francis Bacon Maths & Computing College
• Hitchin Boys
• The John Warner
• Longdean, Presdales
• Queens’
• Richard Hale
• St Albans Girls’
• St Joan of Arc Catholic
• Stanborough

Manual of Financial Procedures

This manual is provided to assist schools to put in place written financial procedures where these currently do not exist or where these are incomplete.

Where a school has existing financial procedures we recommend that these are reviewed against this model to identify whether there are any gaps in the existing procedures or whether they would benefit from any update or revision.

• Word 97, 3.4mb/331 pages, 11/12/2007, financial_procedures_manual.doc

Internal Audit Supplementary Guidance - June 2007

• Acrobat pdf, 380kb/51 pages, 28/07/2007, dfes_fmsis_jun07.pdf

The Financial Services for Schools Team provides a range of training and consultancy support. Further details can be found at:

• Traded: Financial Management in Schools