Your Fischer Family Trust (FFT) subscription cost is changing

After 3 years at the same price, FFT are changing their subscription costs for 2017/18.  FFT Aspire is the website to which three quarters of all Warwickshire schools currently subscribe through the local authority to get pupil and school level attainment dashboards and pupil/school level targets and estimates.

FFT are moving to a flat-fee depending on school type plus a ‘per pupil’ charge for each school so that their pricing structures are more in line with other data analysis and assessment tools used by schools.

As a result of these changes, some schools will see a reduction in their annual FFT subscription from next year, however, larger primary schools/academies and secondary schools/academies will see an increase.  The table below will give you an idea of how much your 2017/18 FFT subscription through the local authority could cost from 1st April 2017 onwards:

Table 1: Subscribing through the local authority

Type of school/academy	Flat fee	Per pupil charge (covers Year 1 to Year 13)
Infant	£35	30p per pupil
Primary/Junior	£55	30p per pupil
Secondary	£375	30p per pupil

The local authority would like to gain an indication now from every school and academy about whether or not you are interested in subscribing to FFT next year through this model.  We would be grateful if you could indicate Yes or No via this link: FFT 2017/18 Subscription Poll

This will allow us to gauge the demand for FFT among our schools.  If there is not enough demand the LA will no longer be able to support this subscription model and schools would need to subscribe directly to FFT. Costs of subscribing directly to FFT are significantly higher than via the local authority:

Table 2: Subscribing directly with FFT

Type of school/academy	Flat Fee	Per pupil charge (covers Year 1 to Year 13)
Infant	£75	95p per pupil
Primary/Junior	£95	95p per pupil
Secondary	£375	95p per pupil

We will feedback the results of the subscription poll in a future newsletter.

If you have any queries about this information, please contact our Business Intelligence Team via e-mail: businessintelligence@warwickshire.gov.uk.

Governing Board Membership

It’s the time of the school year when Governing Boards review and update their membership information and we are asking all Clerks to ensure we at Governor Services are also updated.

To help us to update our records we have revised the School Governing Board Details Form. We would be grateful if you could complete and return the form to amandagardiner@warwickshire.gov.uk by Friday 21st October 2016, and in the future whenever you need to advise the team of any changes.   

The information you provide will be used to:

• Maintain an accurate governors’ database
• Support the recruitment of governors
• Communicate directly with governors and governing boards
• Respond to questions from the DfE, County Councillors etc.

All of which are used by Governor Services for the purposes of School Governor Improvement.