Others remain skeptical, preferring to maintain finance and HR teams within each individual school, relying on cloud-based systems to connect the relevant teams as and when necessary, firmly committed to the belief that this is the best option for pupils and staff.
Education Technology recently spoke to two Access Education customers with differing opinions on the matter, Adele France, CFO of the Minerva Learning Trust, which officially centralised services several years ago; and Debra Briault, CFO at the Circle Trust, which recently decided against the implementation of a central team.