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Access Education People
HR software for schools & MATs
Keep staff data accurate, stay on top of compliance, and manage the full employee journey with HR and payroll software built for schools and trusts.
- Keep staff records accurate and audit-ready
- Cut hours of recruitment and onboarding admin
- Track absence, appraisals and safeguarding in one place
- Report on absence, staff turnover and pay across your whole trust
HR software chosen by schools and trusts across the UK
Imagine if the parts of HR that fill your week were already handled.
- Imagine if the routine admin that piles up every Monday was done before you sat down. More time for the work that actually needs you.
- Imagine if your compliance picture stayed current, your Single Central Record up to date, without anyone maintaining it by hand. Confidence every day, not just when you go looking.
- Imagine if the staffing picture across your trust was always there, without waiting for anyone to pull it together. The full picture, always.
- Imagine if the gender pay gap report that used to take a fortnight was ready the moment you needed it. Reporting off your plate.
Take a look inside Access Education People
Explore the features of our HR software for schools
From recruitment and onboarding to reporting, our HR software for education supports every stage of the employee journey.
AI-enhanced HR
Access Education People includes Access Evo Researcher, your most well-informed colleague, always available. Ask a question in everyday language and get an answer drawn from your own staff data, but only ever the data each person already has permission to see. Draft letters and staff updates in seconds. You review, you decide, and your data stays private to your school or trust. The hours that used to go on searching for things or drafting, go back to supporting your staff.
Employee records and compliance
Keep every staff record accurate, secure and audit-ready:
- Employment terms, contracts and pensions in one record
- Single Central Record kept current, with DBS, right to work and vetting checks tracked in one place
- Encryption and backups as standard
Recruitment
Attract and hire the right people, faster:
- Connect with the UK's leading education recruitment platform and reach over 500,000 active jobseekers a month
- Track DBS, right to work and references in one place
- Manage vacancies, compliance and onboarding without switching systems
- Save 3 to 5 hours of recruitment admin a week
Absence management
Track absence and spot patterns early:
- Automatic Bradford Factor calculations
- Custom triggers for monitoring absence
- Self-service leave requests and approvals
Self-service
Give staff control of their own details through the Access Evo Navigator Screen, so what needs their attention is there when they log in:
- View payslips and update personal information
- Request leave and submit expenses
- Track professional development
Fewer routine queries reaching your HR team.
One place for HR and payroll
Take your people management to the next level
Run your HR and payroll together and the staff data you hold in Access Education People flows straight into payroll - no duplication, fewer errors, and full visibility.
Our education payroll team handles payroll for you, with a dedicated payroll executive and RTI, BACS and pension submissions taken care of. Most schools and trusts run the two together for exactly this reason: one set of records, one connected view of HR and payroll. Explore our managed payroll for schools.
And when you join up your finance and budgeting with us too, your workforce costs and financial planning stay aligned. Explore our school financial management software.
Proven HR and payroll results for schools
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payroll accuracy across all runs
hours
saved a week on recruitment admin
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education payslips processed every month
Why schools and trusts choose Access Education People
We've seen the greatest growth in staff numbers over the past four years, but we haven't had to add a single person to our HR or finance teams. The efficiency savings have been so significant that we've maintained our capacity and still have room to grow.
Staff have complete confidence they'll be paid correctly and on time, and that's a real differentiator compared with other systems I've worked with.
Staff can log in and download their payslips, access holiday requests and log overtime within a few clicks. Previously this was done manually over email and it was incredibly inefficient.
Access Education People works on its own. It works harder connected.
Access Education People gives you everything you need to run HR for your school or trust. But it also connects with your finance, budgeting and payroll through Access Evo, the platform behind all of the Access Education software, so your staff data joins up across the tools your school already uses, through one login and one view.
And Access Evo is changing what the software does for you. More of the routine work that fills the week gets handled in the background, so your team steps in where their judgement matters. You review, you decide.
Start with HR. Add the rest when it suits you.
Frequently asked questions
Is your HR software suitable for multi-academy trusts?
Yes. Access Education People is built for both single schools and trusts, with staff records and reporting that work across every school from one place.
Can I add payroll later?
Yes. You can start with HR on its own, then add managed payroll for schools when it suits you, with your HR data feeding the payroll run.
Does it integrate with my MIS?
Access Education People connects with Arbor and Bromcom, with more MIS integrations planned. Read about the Bromcom integration.
Can it help us manage the Single Central Record?
Yes. You can keep your Single Central Record current within Access Education People, with DBS, right to work and vetting checks tracked in one place, so records stay accurate and inspection-ready.
What can we report on?
You can build and share reports using pre-built templates for equality, diversity and inclusion, holiday entitlement and pay, or filter your own staff data to answer a specific question. People Insights Hub also brings sickness absence, vacancies, staff turnover and gender pay gap together in one place, refreshed daily.
Can we report across a whole trust?
Yes. Trust and school leaders can see workforce data across every school in the trust from one place, rather than pulling separate reports from each school and combining them by hand.
How does the reporting handle gender pay gap?
Gender pay gap data is based on a 31 March annual snapshot, in line with government guidance, and sits alongside your other workforce metrics in People Insights Hub.
How long does setup take?
It depends on your size and how much data needs migrating, but you'll be guided through every step.
Is training and support included?
Yes. Onboarding, training and ongoing UK-based support are included, so any questions are answered as your team gets up to speed.
Ready to see Access Education People in action?
Book a personalised demo and we'll show you how it could work for your school or trust.
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Access Education
Connecting people, processes and data in one intelligent system.
Access Education transforms how schools, academies, trusts, and local authorities operate – bringing finance, budget, operations, teaching and parent communications together through Access Evo, our intelligent software platform. Data moves effortlessly, decisions happen faster, and complexity dissolves into clarity.
Start where it matters most, then expand as your needs evolve. Each solution delivers impact on its own. Together, they're unstoppable.