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. When connected with Access Education Budgets, finance and budgeting share a single source of truth - giving you a clear, consistent view across the whole trust. 

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 capabilities, our HR software facilitates your trust's complete employee lifecycle, giving your HR team the visibility and control to manage your workforce effectively across every school in the trust. . 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.

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. When your whole trust uses GCSEPod, performance data flows into one view - helping trust leaders identify where students need more support and share what's working across schools.

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, My School Portal connects parents and teachers through a single platform, and integrates with your finance and MIS systems to the whole school runs from one place.