Procurement of Cloud-Based Education Management System for Hull City Council

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Hull City Council awarded a contract to ACCESS UK LIMITED for the procurement of a deployable, cloud-based Education Management System (EMS) for use across the education team within the authority.

The contract, valued at AUD 850,000, aimed to deliver efficiencies through improved IT systems, particularly by enhancing the connection between School MIS and the EMS, improving accessibility and usability of management information, increasing face-to-face time with children, young people, and families, supporting agile working, reducing administration burden on front-line staff, reducing total system costs, and providing seamless integration with other council IT systems.

The solution was required to offer services including address management, admissions and transport, attainment and results, business-to-business data exchange and data management, children's support services case management (covering child missing education, children looked after virtual school, education welfare, education welfare prosecutions, education psychology, elective home education, integrated physical and sensory support service, and priority families), children in entertainment and employment, data collection and management, early years, fair access and exclusions, family information service, free school meals, and GIS routing and distance calculations, all while complying with statutory guidance.