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HCSS Budgeting
A powerful budgeting and forecasting tool for schools and trusts
HCSS Budgeting gives schools and trusts a smarter way to plan, monitor, and report on finances. With built-in compliance and powerful reporting, it saves time, improves accuracy, and supports confident financial decision-making.
Staffing clarity
Calculate costs across roles and contracts.
Effortless reporting
Create compliant returns at the click of a button.
Trust-wide view
Monitor finances across every school.
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Calculate staffing costs
Easily project teaching and support staff costs, including multiple contracts, increments, pensions, and allowances such as maternity or sickness. Analyse salary, NI, and pension spend by month or year, with a quick calculator for new hires.
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Budget monitoring, reports, and returns
Generate clear, easy-to-understand reports for leaders, governors, and trustees. HCSS Budgeting complies with ESFA and DfE requirements, making budget forecast returns quick and simple.
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Payroll reconciliation
Import monthly payroll files to automatically match expected and actual payments. Get a real-time view of variances across key areas like pay, pensions, and National Insurance.
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Supporting multi-academy trusts
Produce plans and reports at a trust, group, or individual school level. HCSS Budgeting makes it simple to manage finances across a MAT and see the bigger picture.
“HCSS Budgeting has allowed us to project significant complex financial calculations and put resources into match funding bids to build and develop our school. With an increase in students, we have developed ten classrooms, a million pound sports hall and a dining hall expansion. The software gave governors confidence that we can finance these projects.”
Woodbrook Vale School
Dave Green
Business Manager
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