Operate more efficiently
Streamline daily tasks to free up time for supporting children and families effectively while complying with legislative and statutory duties.
Improve outcomes
Offer targeted support and create better outcomes for children, young people and families by securely connecting data for a complete view.
Intervene earlier
Identify needs early, improving chances of success with proactive, data-driven interventions.
Improve outcomes for children and young people with the whole picture
Our flexible, intuitive software supports around 100 UK local authorities to manage their education services more efficiently, offering a uniquely comprehensive and integrated suite of solutions for school admissions, attendance, early years, education welfare, exclusions, child employment and performance licencing, elective home education and fixed penalty notices, free school meals, special educational needs, transport, youth support services, and much more.
By connecting data securely, you gain a holistic view of children and young people for informed decision-making and early intervention, whilst our time-saving solutions free your teams to focus on safeguarding children and delivering targeted support.
Key statistics
100
UK local authorities using our software to manage and improve education and children’s services
538000+
School place applications, successfully processed through our software in 2024
94.8%
Admissions applications submitted by parents online in 2024
Secure and scalable education management platform built for local authorities
Ensure data visibility across your systems
Our software consolidates data across systems to offer a unified view of each child and their family. Enabling local authorities to identify risks and vulnerabilities sooner, facilitating informed decisions and timely interventions to enhance outcomes.
Streamline and simplify administrative tasks
Our statutory compliant tools and online portals streamline admissions, attendance, special educational needs, and transport, reducing administrative workloads. This enables local authorities to focus on core duties, deliver services efficiently, and enhance support for children and families.
Identify at-risk children sooner
By integrating data and tracking attendance patterns, the software helps local authorities detect changes in children and families’ circumstances sooner, allowing timely interventions that prevent escalation and improve life outcomes.
Comprehensive core education services solution
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Attainment monitoring
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Admissions & transfers
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Child employment
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Elective Home Education
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School exclusions
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Free school meals
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School governors
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SEND management
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Sensory support
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Transport management
Attainment monitoring
Attainment monitoring
Monitor pupil attainment and support school improvement:
- The whole picture: a comprehensive view of student records offers a powerful comparison of performance against a range of target indicators, including FFT estimates and RAISEonline data
- Target intervention: assessment data can be analysed by individual, cohort, school, school cluster or authority-wide allowing trends to be identified early for targeted interventions to improve outcomes
- Share information: with secure and efficient data sharing, realistic and appropriately challenging learning targets can be set to raise student achievement, with best practice shared across the authority
Admissions & transfers
Admissions & transfers
Our software supports statutory admissions processes by providing self-service citizen and school portals. These portals enable local authority teams to collaborate effectively, ensuring:
- Seamless Experiences: Positive and streamlined interactions for parents, carers, and schools.
- Smooth Transitions: Facilitating smoother school transitions for children.
- Statutory Compliance: Ensuring adherence to the admissions code of practice and DfE annual return.
Child employment
Child employment
Child safeguarding within employment and entertainment:
- Early intervention: record information on performances, tuition and earnings which can be linked to other data.
- Supports compliance: record inspection visits and outcomes centrally, supports legislative requirements for the protection of children and young people at work, and involved in performances
- Safeguard children: a central source of information on employers, type of work or performance, full history of children employed by the company, chaperones, references and disclosure checks
Elective Home Education
Elective Home Education
Designed to support the proposed reforms in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, ensuring the protection and well-being of children educated at home.
- Streamlined Submission Process: Schools can easily submit EHE requests to the Local Authority through our web-based portal.
- Parental Engagement: Parents can submit information and evidence of their EHE journey.
- Enhanced Local Authority Interaction: Local Authorities can engage with parents for initial assessments, follow-ups, and reviews.
- Efficient Management: A user-friendly dashboard allows Local Authorities to manage, review, and respond to requests and submissions efficiently.
- Automated Workflows: Automated reminders and correspondence reduce the workload for Local Authority staff.
School exclusions
School exclusions
- Early intervention: exclusion from school is an early indication of changes to a child’s circumstance: with exclusion data transferred automatically into your system, exclusions, interventions, alternative education arrangements and progress are easily monitored.
- Simplified administration: reduces the amount of paperwork whilst ensuring continued secure access to accurate information on excluded students
- Effective teamwork: action taken to reintegrate a student into the classroom can be recorded and shared along with information on any alternative educational support.
- School exclusions portal: enhances collaboration online working, captures children at risk of exclusion and exclusions for children attending out of authority or independent schools.
Free school meals
Free school meals
- Empower parents: local authorities have seen a 400-600% increase in free school meals applications – our portal empowers parents to check discreetly if they qualify, with an instant eligibility result
- Reduce administration: a claim is automatically created against the child’s record, saving c.20 minutes of manual data input per application and getting the vital nutrition to the child sooner
- Supports school plans: helps schools plan effectively as they have a better understanding of who’s eligible for pupil premium income to better support the most vulnerable children
School governors
School governors
- Simplifies administration: a complete record of governors stored centrally reduces the need to re-enter and duplicate data.
- Secure, accessible information: governor details can be easily viewed including appointments, validity of DBS checks and training records.
- Flexible working: the tools help clerks manage their workload and carry out duties remotely, including the distribution of meeting agendas and minutes.
SEND management
SEND management
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
Flexible, intuitive case management tools integrate with our user-friendly citizen and professional portals, automatically populating the back-office database to reduce administration. The solution enables local authorities to meet statutory compliance requirements, improve efficiency, and provide better support for children and young people with special educational needs.
- Customisable and Reportable Capabilities
- Online Collaboration and Co-Production
- Automated Processes & Real-Time Data Recording
- 24/7 Online Access
- Digital EHCP production via our online portals
- Key Processes and Information Sharing
- SEND pre-assessment solution (available from summer 2025)
Sensory support
Sensory support
Sensory Support Services for Hearing and Visual Impairment
- Share information: other children’s services professionals can monitor and access information of a child’s sensory impairment to maximise pupils learning opportunities and raise achievement.
- Monitor impact: generate graphical audiograms against historical data to ensure services and support continues to meet pupils’ needs.
- Reduce administration: maintain a complete record of services and equipment provided, monitor inventory easily with central records of equipment loans and maintenance.
Transport management
Transport management
Transport solutions to help you deliver your responsibilities effectively, including home-to-school travel, SEND and social care transport.
- Customisable on-line forms
- Citizen Portal Self-Service
- Automated Notifications
- Seamless integration with QRoutes and Qpaths route optimisation software
- Cost Savings
Flexible integrated solutions
Single View
Our Single View toolkit helps local authorities spot crucial connections in society sooner by combining real time data sources to flag vulnerable people - and unfolding situations that would otherwise remain hidden - before events escalate.
Attendance collection
Our attendance collection tool helps local authorities collect school attendance data for vulnerable children from schools inside and outside of their borders - improving outcomes by understanding patterns earlier.
Early intervention
You need to know if a child or family’s situation changes. Our solutions enable you to draw on a wide range of information – from schools and agencies – for the whole picture of a child’s life.
Early Years
We make it easier to improve outcomes for young children and families with self-service options and reporting tools which help you deliver services efficiently and effectively to achieve statutory compliance.
Fixed Penalty Notices
Nurturing every child's right to education, tackling school absenteeism, supporting August 2024 revised government legislation with in-built-validation, personalised dashboards, online portal and more features.
Personal Education Plan (PEP)
Our online tool simplifies and streamlines the management of Personal Education Plans (PEPs), making it easier to reflect the views of the child – and everyone in their life – to achieve better outcomes.
Integrated Youth Support Services
Improve outcomes and meet statutory compliance requirements with a more complete, shared view of every young person, so your team can work together with other services to identify those at risk and target interventions.
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