Who Do I Contact?
Here is a list of contacts for general day to day queries on finance. If you have a query on an area that is not covered here, please get in touch with your School
Funding Team Officer in the first instance. SFT Officer contacts are shown in the ‘SFT Guidance’ area of this website.
Children’s Services Reception goes through the Council switchboard; 01274 432111
Area
Main Reason for Contacting
Name
Telephone No.
Company / Department
6th Form Funding / Post-16
Queries & Information on 6th Form Funding
and post-16 services
01274 385837
EEET (Education, Employment and
Enterprise Team
Academies conversion
Advice on academy conversion
Angela Taylor /
Matt Findull /
Alistair Marshall
Dave Johnston
01274 385525
Education Client Services
Academies
Sarah North
01274 434173
School Funding Team
Rachel Phillips
01274 38567
Admissions Team
Asset Management
The funding of Academies & income
modelling for schools potentially aiming for
academy status
Advice & guidance on admissions to schools
and appeals
Advice on building, assets and safety issues
Advice on Council audit and good practice
01274 431754 /
01274 431755
01274 432791
Bradford Council Asset Mgt Dept
Audit
David Airnes /
Sandra Moore
Julie Cousins
Bank Payments (Council)
For unidentified credits/debits received from
the Council on your bank statement
Advice for BSF schools on costs, contracts,
service providers & funding
Contact with the Primary Bursars Forum
(regular meetings, advice & support)
Contact with the Secondary Bursars Forum
(regular meetings, advice and support)
Advice on capital allocations and the
processing of capital claims
Queries/info relating to a journal or invoiced
charges for school meals provision
Ghaffar Hussain
01274 432066
Bradford Council Creditor Payments
Peter Hardaker
01274 436824
Bradford Council BSF Team
Linda Thompson /
Suzanne Wahed
Ashley Reed
01274 493543 /
01274 541587
01274 362020
Girlington Primary School /
Allerton Primary School
Belle Vue Girls School
Dawn Haigh
01274 433775
School Funding Team
Kalpana Mistry
01274 431899
Facilities Management
Admissions & Appeals
Building Schools for the Future
Business Manager / Bursar Forum
(Primary)
Business Manager / Bursar Forum
(Secondary)
Capital Funding
Catering
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Bradford Council Audit Department
Census
Children’s Centres
Courses
DBS Checks
Early Years
Energy Management / Carbon
Reduction
Exclusions and Behaviour Support
Formula Funding
Governors
Growth Funding
HCSS
Insurance
Legal Services
Looked After Children
Maternity
New Communities and Traveller
Children
Advice on completion of the DfE’s termly
census and access to census data
Advice on the Funding and Accounting
Reporting Requirements for Children’s
Centres
To obtain information and booking forms for
course run for teaching and education
Info on DBS (CRB) check process and
progress
Advice on the provision of the Free
Entitlement to Nursery education
Advice on contract prices and details and
energy saving measures
Advice & guidance on the funding of excluded
& included pupils and BACS
General queries on how schools are funded,
formula funding & Section 251 Budgets
Advice and support for Governors, access to
courses (including the Effective Financial
Governance Course) and provision of a
clerking service
Adjustments to school funding in year for
growth in pupil numbers
Support and guidance on software use
Christopher
Holroyd
Adrian Tolley
07582 103030
Information Management Team
02174 434428
Bradford Council Early Years and
Childcare
Courses Desk
01274 385822
Commercial & Business Team
Rehana Swaleh
01274 436285
HR Vetting Service 
Sarah North
01274 434173
School Funding Team
Kate Smallwood
01274 433885
Environment & Climate Change Unit
Jennie Sadowskyj
01274 385617
Behaviour Support Service
Sarah North
01274 434173
School Funding Team
Linda Townsend
01274 385626
Leadership & Governance Team 
Sarah North
01274 434173
School Funding Team
SFT Contact
School Funding Team
Advice on school insurance responsibilities
and claiming processes
Legal Advice on School Issues (contracts,
regulations etc)
The funding of Children Looked After
Graham Dalby
01274 437061 /
01274 437042
01274 432781
Joanne Gleeson
01274 434878
Mike Latham /
Fiona Wood
Sarah North
Cathryn Whiteley
01274 385737 /
01274 435280
01274 434173
01274 435484
Bradford Council Corporate Law Team

CLA Virtual School Head /
Looked After Children
School Funding Team
HR Advisory Service
Paul Johnson
01274 385558
New Communities and Travellers
Advice on maternity funding & the allocation
of reimbursements to schools
Advice on provision for refugees, asylum
seekers and children from traveller
communities
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Council Insurance & Risk Management
Passwords
Payroll
Request a login id and password for Bradford
Schools Online (BSO website)
Queries/info on payments to staff
PE and Sports Grant
Advice on Schools PE and Clubs
Procurement
Michelle Carroll
01274 434656
Pupil Number Forecasts
Advice on Procurement legislation, good
practice and value for money
Forecasted pupil numbers for future years
Nina Mewse
01274 385537
Pupil Premium
Queries and information on the Pupil Premium
Sarah North
01274 434173
Rates
Info relating to rates charges for schools
Tracy Mellor
01274 431868
SAP Transactions
Unidentified items on SAP prints
SFT Contact
School Companies
Requirement to consult with LA when
establishing a school company
Support and guidance on software use
Dave Johnston
01274 437042 /
01274 437061
01274 385525
Helpdesk
01274 385800
E-ICT Service 
Neil Jerome
01274 385970
SEN Team
Staff Contracts
Funding of SEN Statemented pupils & SEN
Formula Funding
Queries/info on staff employment issues
HR Contact
01274 385999
HR School Support Service
VAT
Advice on VAT issues in first instance
SFT Contact
01274 434914
School Funding Team
SIMS
Special Educational Needs
Azeem Hussain
01274 385942
Information Management Team
Nominated Payroll
Officer
Phil Wagner
01274 437546
Bradford Council Payroll 
01274 385672
School Organisation and Place
Planning
Bradford Council Procurement
School Organisation and Place
Planning
School Funding Team
Bradford Council Education Capital
Team
School Funding Team
Education Client Services
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above against each service.
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