The Circle Trust
Revolutionary cloud-hosted software
As Chief Financial Officer of a rapidly expanding trust, Debra Briault was looking for software that not only helped her look at information from a Trust level, but also empowered the individual schools within the Multi-Academy Trust. That’s when she found Access Education People & Budgets.
- Access Education Budgets
- Access Education People
Choosing the right solution
We believe in empowering our schools when it comes to decision making - after all, they know their teachers and students best. We do, however, need some level of coordination between our business and finance teams. A cloud-based system is a really great middle ground for everyone involved, allowing back-office staff, our SLT and governors remote access to progress reports, KPI sheets, live data tracking performance, spend and progress.
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Previously, our schools were reliant on individual servers, so the decision to implement Access Education's budgeting software for MATs and People was an easy one. We knew we needed a cloud-based system to ensure our teams could operate effectively and collaboratively, access key metrics or reports when required, and form a cohesive working relationship.
As CFO of a rapidly expanding trust, I was determined to ensure every school felt listened to, represented and supported - without a doubt, the Access software has been integral in helping me achieve this aim.
How have Access Education People & Budgets impacted the Trust?
Access Education People is brilliant, staff across the trust can now login and view information or reports relating to their own school, while those responsible for overseeing the trust - such as myself - have different login rights and are able to gain a higher level of visibility. This has helped harness a collaborative working relationship within the trust, as individual schools can maintain their own identity.
Access Education Budgets can generate coordinated and consolidated reports - unlike the previous systems which made this near impossible, allowing me to be far more strategic in how I collate information. I can now produce consolidated and personalised finance reports for different stakeholders - from our board of directors to the school improvement team, headteachers to business managers, in just a few clicks. We’re now confident that the data, reports and information in front of us is reliable, making an immediate difference to the running of the trust - especially over such challenging few months.
We’re now confident that the data, reports and information in front of us is reliable.
