About us

Educational and Financial Consulting is a division of a successful Managing Consultancy Practice formed in 1994 which is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales Practice Assurance Scheme. All assessments are carried out from our Maidstone practice and every case is overseen by a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

As assessors we are looking for an evidential trail that allows us to say that from the evidence supplied, the school has met the department for children, schools and families’ Financial Management Standard in Schools.

We visit every school as we do not believe in the value of remote desktop reviews. Because we are on site, if something is missing in the evidential trail, we can point to other ways of presenting evidence, documents or files to ensure the evidential trail is as complete as possible on the day. The assessment should be carried out with minimal disruption to the School.

As a practice we not "do late"! We look to make third party enquiries (e.g. the LA) in advance so that we are able to advise the school within 7-10 working days that they have successfully met the Standard or that they have a twenty day window to provide fuller and better information.

At the end of the assessment, we leave with you a simple form for you to say what you thought of the Assessor and how we carried out the assessment. Your comments are filed on a database to be available to the department of children, schools and families when we get inspected.