Education technology review for schools in Manchester and north-west England

Current England school-feed evidence

The GIAS-derived LeadSync feed contains 527 open establishment records in postcode area M. Positive pupil counts are available on 484 records (92% coverage), representing 205,816 known pupils. Missing values are not inferred.

• Recorded phases: Primary (333), Not applicable (107), Secondary (76), 16 plus (6).
• Leading establishment types: Academy converter (101), Voluntary aided school (101), Community school (95).
• 0 Special-phase records.
• 73 distinct recorded trust names.

Financial comparison boundary

For an individual English school, LeadSync may use the Firestore CFR/AAR benchmark when a valid URN and financial history are available. The postcode page itself does not create a postcode average.

• No postcode-wide spending average is invented.
• No school name is used to guess an accounting regime.
• Potential savings require contract and invoice validation.
• Specialist and SEND requirements remain part of the review.

Questions for the review

A useful review separates recurring and one-off expenditure, confirms service ownership, records renewal and notice dates, and checks whether safeguarding, resilience and support obligations are priced consistently.

• What is contracted, by whom and until when?
• Which licences, devices and support elements overlap?
• What fails over during an outage and has it been tested?
• Which requirements are specific to this school or trust?

Named source and rotation control

The geography is supported by ONS postcode guidance and Department for Education education evidence. The page is not generated by the three-day targeting rotation; publication requires a separate, time-bounded cohort approval.