{"id":67464,"date":"2016-02-10T11:48:49","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T11:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9afa8b207bc211b5455705bd45204e77"},"modified":"2016-02-10T11:48:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T11:48:49","slug":"news-story-procurement-training-for-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=67464","title":{"rendered":"News story: Procurement training for schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Crown Commercial Service (<abbr title=\"Crown Commercial Service\">CCS<\/abbr>) and Department for Education (<abbr title=\"Department for Education\">DfE<\/abbr>) have created a set of self-service introductory level public procurement training sessions for school staff with budget or buying responsibility. <\/p>\n<p>The bite size modules are designed to be used for group training sessions and are aimed at senior leadership teams, school business managers and governors\/trustees in all local-authority-maintained schools, academies and free schools. <\/p>\n<p>The 12 modules, complete with trainer notes, provide a cost-effective route to improving procurement skills in your school by helping you understand public procurement legislation and share effective best practice.<\/p>\n<p>Each module lasts from 15 to 50 minutes and follows a simple procurement cycle, covering topics such as analysing value, creating a specification, contract management and legislation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/procurement-training-for-schools\">Download the modules<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Crown Commercial Service and Department for Education have launched a series of free to access procurement training modules for schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}