Premier Advisory has worked with many single and multi academy trusts to write successful free school applications. In 2019 alone, we worked with over 30 proposers, on their free school applications in the Department for Education’s Wave 2 and 14 processes and a number of local authority competitions. PAG has significant experience of pre-opening project management and can help guide clients throughout the rigorous pre-opening process.

PAG offers a high-quality, personalised service to help with the volume and complexity of tasks in pre-opening. Our reliable team of professional, proactive and punctilious project managers has builds trusted relationships with all stakeholders, ensuring the success of the project and the timely opening of your new school. Our team will bring to the project skills and expertise including managing the critical path and risk control. PAG will ensure effective and efficient communications between key individuals and stakeholder groups.

We can provide a combination of strategic advice, practical guidance and task delivery. In such projects there are areas where there is no definitive right answer to an issue (although there are usually many wrong answers!) PAG will set out a range of solutions and their respective strengths and weaknesses so that you can make an informed decision.

Premier Advisory Group’s pre-opening services are tailored directly to the requirements of its clients. Those interested in procuring our pre-opening project management service can do so by via the Crown Commercial Services MCF2 Framework or the NHS Consult-18 Framework.

In the first instance we would be happy to discuss your project with and share some of our experiences as free school proposers and as professionals that worked with free schools when it was a movement not a programme. Book some time with us on the link below.