Powered by TSO Education. We design bespoke programmes around your trust's risks, governance priorities and current pressures, then help you track delivery through MYAUDIT.school.
Scope coverage
Our published scope areas are exemplars, not a fixed framework. Every programme is tailored to your trust, your risk register, your governance priorities and the risks currently arising across your schools.
Internal scrutiny should not be a disconnected checklist. We start with an individualised risk assessment, respond to your risk register and existing assurance, and then shape flexible scopes around the controls trustees rely on for assurance decisions.
Coverage includes cash discipline, reconciliations, procurement governance, month-end close quality and management accounting controls used for trustee reporting.
Governance reviews test declaration discipline, board oversight, policy sign-off controls and practical compliance with published trust requirements.
Operational assurance covers payroll, HR workflows, cyber governance, safeguarding evidence quality and UK GDPR process reliability.
Pupil and curriculum assurance tests attendance strategy, PPG impact, assessment reliability and census controls linked to funding accuracy.
Delivery model
All scrutiny work is undertaken by or directly supervised by a named director. Reviewers either bring senior school or trust experience, or specialist knowledge in the chosen focus area.
We start with a planning conversation, agree a bespoke programme for your trust and report termly against what matters most. This keeps assurance proportionate, reduces low-value testing and gives audit committees clearer decision evidence.
Evidence
We have been working with TSO Education for two years undertaking our Internal Scrutiny. Their menu of options is helpful in selecting and programming areas to examine. Their work has been carefully undertaken and the reports are well structured and easy to read and monitor.
I have found the Internal Scrutiny reports useful as TSO also apply additional operational experience in their reports. We have truly valued the wider advice and support.
TSO are expert, astute and dedicated to empowering school business leaders.
Guidance alignment
We align to current published guidance and translate requirements into tailored controls, evidence standards and governance actions.
Guidance is referenced directly to support clarity. We focus on implementation quality, not only policy presence, so boards can demonstrate assurance over how controls operate in practice.
Register your trust at MYAUDIT.school or book a planning conversation to agree a tailored scrutiny scope for the risks identified in your trust.
