Schools

SLA Management

The service level agreements you hold with schools, and where each one has got to.

An SLA sets out what you will deliver to a school over the year and what the school pays for it. Because the school is billed rather than the pupils, the agreement is the thing that matters — it is what the invoicing is built from.

This screen shows every agreement at once: which are signed, which are waiting to be signed, and which are still being agreed.

A school that has not signed is a school you may be teaching without a basis to invoice, which is why they are worth watching as a group rather than one at a time.

Automatic subsidies

A school's subsidy can be set to apply automatically, which gives it to every pupil at that school who meets its criteria without an application.

This is the one kind of funding that produces no queue: there is nothing to approve, because nobody applied. It is worth knowing which of your schools have one, as it explains charges that look lower than the published rate.

See Automatic school subsidies.

Your conditions on the agreement

The SLA letter sent to a school ends with your own conditions — the Conditions of the Agreement, variations to contract, charging policy, who to contact.

That text is held once in System Configuration and printed at the end of every school's SLA, so it is written once rather than per school. It accepts Markdown, so it can carry headings and lists rather than being one unbroken paragraph.