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The Next 20: Schools Buying Strategy – 10 Years On
41 minutes Posted Feb 10, 2026 at 1:15 pm.
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What does it take to change behaviour across 20,000 autonomous schools – without mandating anything?
In this episode of The Next 20, Antonio Weiss is joined by Reza Schwitzer (AQA) and Katie Burns to reflect on a landmark schools buying strategy developed a decade ago. They explore how user-centred design, behaviour change and system-level thinking helped save schools over £1bn – and why the lessons matter more than ever for the next 20 years of public services.