Welcome to Baines Cutler

We collect sector leading data through our extensive benchmarking surveys, which we turn into information and advice to fit every client’s unique cultures and strategies.

We use your peer to peer data, along with a thorough understanding of what makes your school unique, to put structures in place which maximise your resources in ways which incentivise staff, deliver your offering and realise your strategic objectives. ... 

We have helped schools of all sizes and types, both in the UK and abroad, to streamline costs and focus resources, so that they are able to survive financial pressures and stand head and shoulders above the competition with a true confidence in what they stand for.

Please explore our website for insight into how we can help make your school a cultural and financial success- wherever you are.

Information

We collect the sector leading data in key school business areas and turn it into information which truly informs your decision making.  

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Solutions

Our solutions are by our getting to know each school's unique culture, educational offering and strategic aims, along with unparalleled market data. 

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The Team

We transform data into actionable intelligence and advice

There are two strands to our business; the data we collect across numerous school business areas, and our commitment to understanding how every school we work with is unique. By using both market data and a thorough understanding of school cultures, we are able to give the right advice to schools on their business models and strategic plans.

Finances How should you structure your business model to ensure you are making best use of your resources? Do you have the right fee structures and bursary policy in place? We can help schools to develop their financial KPI's , improves surplus levels resource their offerings efficiently
Teacher pay consultancy Need a pay structure which is competitive in your market but reflects your culture and strategic objectives? We take reliable data and a true understanding of your school to create the right structure to truly incentivise your teaching staff and reward them competitively for what they give to your reputation.
Teacher workload analysis Is the time deployment of your teachers both cost effective and in line with what you are trying to achieve as a school? This tool shows in great detail the answer to this question, and informs strategic discussions about how to make the best of your most invaluable resource- your teachers.
Parental affordability How much should you put the fees up this year? What resources are your parents using to pay your fees? Is your bursary policy and fee model reflective of parents’ circumstances? Our confidential survey asks the questions that parents want to answer but that you cannot ask.
Vision 360 Are your strategic plans commensurate with values held by your stakeholders? Do values change depending on which stakeholders you ask? What makes you unique against the competition? Our biggest deviation from benchmarking to date, this service informs and validates not only your strategic plan, but decisions on how your financial models should support it.
Strategy From Strategic awaydays to conferences, to full on strategic reviews, we use our experience and data across all our service lines to understand every school and steer each client's strategic discussions into the right direction.every client we work with.

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How we're different

We are the sector leaders in benchmarking. Our surveys all have excellent levels of participation and this means that our data is of the highest quality.
We have extensive experience in linking data from different business areas so we can really see the key messages.
We don’t just give you information, we put it into your school’s unique context and culture, making sure that information is used in a way which maximises each school’s potential.
We do not benchmark data if we think it is dangerous. This is particularly the case with our 360 service, which helps schools identify how they can be unique.
We take the time to take stakeholders on a journey, which we deem as at least as important as simply “getting the work done”.
We are never afraid to tell you the truth.
We are always challenging ourselves to improve and evolve our surveys and our services, responding to sector needs and issues.
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