Software for multi-academy trusts

Access Education Budgets is the MAT software of choice for trust-wide forecasting, scenario planning and reporting. Used by 1000+ large and small MATs for all their budgeting needs.

• Plan, report and forecast at trust level
• Set user permissions for individual academies
• Push out centralised factors to multiple academies (e.g. Payscales, inflation)
• Create customisable reports (BFR, budget monitoring, MAT overview)

Combined, this will save your trust money through increased efficiencies. You can also add unlimited users at no extra cost. For full financial optimisation, we recommend integrating Access Education Budgets with Access Education Finance.

Empowering large and small trusts to confidently manage their accounts at a school, group or trust level.

• Create reports for single schools, groups or the entire trust
• Complete and submit your academies' accounts return (AAR) to the DfE
• Conduct your annual audit seamlessly

Central financial control allows MATs to reduce costs, simplify processes and promote consistency across schools. And when integrated with Access Education budgets, you gain ultimate control over your MAT's financial landscape.

Cloud-based and specifically designed for the education sector, our HR software centralises HR operations in MATs across the UK.

• Centralise your employee records
• Boost appraisals and evaluations
• Generate over 100 different types of report, with bespoke dashboards
• Empower your team with self-serve functionality 

With additional recruitment, screening, and learning management modules, our HR software facilitates your trust's complete employee lifecycle, ensuring a happy team. For optimal HR management, we suggest integrating our HR software with our Payroll service.

Market-leading, education-specific managed payroll service for MATs.

• Save time and resource by outsourcing payroll responsibilities
• Ensure compliance and accurate payroll processing
• Enhance data security for employee information

For optimal HR management, we suggest integrating our managed Payroll service with our HR software. If your MAT already has a certified payroll team, we also provide an in-house payroll software option.

Improve the quality of education in your secondary schools with GCSEPod. Standardise assessments, share best practice and get performance insights to raise attainment across your whole trust.

• Award-winning online teaching resources for KS3 and GCSE
• Engage learners, improve confidence and accelerate progress
• Accessible, easy to digest content that teachers and students will love

Our platform brings together the key elements of content, assessment, and data all on one platform, offering subscribers award-winning, expert-led education resources combined with essential monitoring and reporting.

Centralise parent-teacher communication to keep everyone in the loop.

• Send and store newsletters, school updates, emails, forms and more
• Streamline your parents evening processes to make it simple for parents to schedule their appointments
• Build and submit forms such as absence, leave, contact, medical details, new joiners and more

With 50,000+ daily users, our parent engagement platform is a powerful, intuitive system that connects parents and teachers through a single streamlined dashboard.