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Payroll for LEA-maintained schools

Whether you’re procuring for schools or looking for a solution to recommend, our payroll option is here to help empower your schools to manage their payroll processes with accuracy.

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Fully-managed payroll services for your schools

Our managed (or outsourced) service means that we take on the responsibility of running and delivering your schools’ payroll. With a 99.9% accuracy rating and a 100% pass mark from the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals’ Payroll Assurance Scheme, your schools’ payroll needs couldn’t be in safer hands.

We will provide a portal for staff to access their payslips and your dedicated payroll executive will look after everything from sending BACS, producing electronic pay slips, meeting RTI obligations, managing your pension processing and much more. This is our most commonly selected option and we process more than 50,000 education payslips every month for schools and trusts across the UK.

Servicing 33% of maintained schools

Discover a world of possibilities with our payroll features and benefits, designed to empower you and your school to tackle payroll with precision.

Payment processing

Process, balance and reconcile all month and year end figures and payments (including country-specific payments e.g. HMRC and IRS)

Occupational and statutory payments

Calculate all occupational and statutory payments, inc maternity, Alabaster and redundancy

Country-specific processing

Processing of all country-specific checks, files & documentation including HMRC, IRS, P60, P45, SEPA

Expert support

Dedicated telephone, account management and online support from an experienced, dedicated payroll team – including monthly telephone service review

Report production

Produce all reports, inc standard payslips, check reports, monthly payments and 3rd party payments

Teacher pensions

Our fully comprehensive service includes all teacher pension requirements

Increased payroll accuracy

Processing more than 50,000 payslips every month, we have a 99.9% accuracy rating and a 100% pass mark from the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) Payroll Assurance Scheme (PAS)

Why choose our payroll solution for your schools?

Having a payroll provider who understands the education space and takes into account all of your payroll and teacher pension complexities is crucial.

Here at Access Education, we provide:

  • A complete solution for a small single primary school through to a large multi-academy trust
  • Guaranteed legislative compliance from reporting to checks, processing and everything in between
  • Reduced payroll administration as we process everything from your BACS run to your teacher pensions
  • Clearer payroll reporting

Payroll resources for local authorities

Increase your schools' payroll accuracy from as little as £3.50 per payslip