Schools are at the centre of a complex series of relationships involving children, their families and their communities. We understand that creating and sustaining strong schools depends on, and is pivotal to, providing informed and bespoke support to them and their communities.
We are one of the country’s leading providers of professional support and consultancy services to the schools and children’s services sector.
Our services include:
- consultancy for local authority children’s services departments
- children’s services management information systems (Synergy)
- whole school transformation and improvement, through initiatives like the National Challenge
- Building Schools for the Future
- ICT and e-learning consultancy and products
- DCSF Value for Money.
Our breadth and depth of skills and experience in this sector means we can provide comprehensive solutions to complex and multi-faceted challenges, drawing seamlessly on expertise in:
- children’s services strategy
- social care and child safety
- management information software and solutions
- school improvement
- family learning
- ICT and e-learning
- community regeneration.
Our staff, including former heads, teachers, local authority directors of children’s services and school improvement advisers and industry technology specialists, have deep domain knowledge.
Our technology expertise is unrivalled and we have worked on a number of key projects in the schools sector, including the NCETM portal which aims to provide support in education, technology and mathematics and the Got a Teenager portal. We also are a Microsoft Gold Accredited Partner.
We are on the BECTA framework as an approved ICT consultancy and we developed a number of leading edge learning tools that aim to encourage mobile learning for children.
We work with organisations including the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and the Training and Development Agency (TDA), as well as children's services departments and the voluntary sector to develop and implement policy.
Initiatives we have worked on include:
- Greater Manchester Challenge, part of the National Challenge
- DCSF Value for Money Campaign
- Building Schools for the Future
- academies.