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Curriculum and staffing decisions impact finances, educational outcomes and staff well-being. Waffle aligns your financial and curriculum teams, enabling an effective decision-making process to find an optimal balance.
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Make sure your staffing can fulfil your curriculum.
Make sure your staffing can fulfil your curriculum.
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See the impact and interaction of scenarios. Model the consequences if someone leaves, or another class is put on.
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In this video, we’re going to look at the core metrics used in Integrated Curriculum Financial Planning, or ICFP.
These metrics tie together three essential elements of school planning — curriculum, staffing, and budget — and help us understand whether they’re working together effectively.
By the end, you’ll see how just a few simple numbers can give you incredibly powerful insights into how your school operates.
Every school wants to offer the best possible education. But doing that—within tight budgets, fluctuating pupil numbers, and rising staffing pressures—is harder than ever.
That’s where Integrated Curriculum Financial Planning, or ICFP, comes in.
This video explains what it is, how it helps and why it is important.
For many trusts, spreadsheets have long been the default tool for curriculum and financial planning. They’re familiar, flexible, and already sitting on everyone’s desktop.
But as trusts grow in size and complexity, the limitations of a multi‑spreadsheet approach become impossible to ignore.
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ICFP is vital for aligning curriculum, staffing, and finances — and for keeping schools sustainable. But in many trusts, ICFP stalls or fades away, replaced by spreadsheets, assumptions, and familiar habits.
This article looks at why ICFP often fails and how to turn it into a genuinely strategic planning tool instead of an annual tick‑box exercise.
