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Education websites for UK school groups, colleges and national providers.

Codeeo delivers education website development UK school groups, academy trusts, college groups and national training providers can roll out across many sites and more than one nation. We build the platform, the shared design system and the publishing rules that keep dozens of school or campus sites accurate, accessible and easy to find. Because England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland each inspect, fund and regulate education differently, the platform is planned so every site shows the right terminology, regulator and legal wording for where it operates.

Our team works with UK clients remotely, without a local office. Discovery workshops, design reviews and editor training run by video call, which suits organisations whose staff are spread across several regions anyway.

Built for
Multi-academy trusts, independent school groups, further education college groups, universities with several campuses and national training or tutoring providers.
Typical timeline
Set in phases after discovery: the shared platform and a pilot site first, then further sites on an agreed rollout order that respects each school or campus calendar.
What you own
The platform, its source code, every site, the domains, hosting, analytics and all enquiry data, held in your organisation's accounts.
Rated
4.7 / 5 from 23 Google reviews

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What the platform includes

Built for organisations running many education websites at once.

A single school can live with a hand built site. A group of twenty schools, or a provider with campuses from Cardiff to Glasgow, cannot. Without a shared platform, each site drifts: policies go out of date, accessibility slips, branding fragments and nobody knows which pages are compliant. Education website design UK groups need starts with central control over the things that must be consistent, and freedom for each site over the things that should feel local. These are the capabilities we plan for groups and national providers, chosen and ordered in discovery.

Explain your project
  • Multi-site platform

    One codebase and CMS serving every school, college or centre, each with its own domain, branding variant, editors and content. Security updates, new components and fixes are applied once and reach every site, and adding a new member school becomes a configuration task rather than a new website project. Each site can still add its own pages for clubs, trips or local partnerships without asking the central team.

    Every site stays current without separate maintenance.

  • Nation-aware content rules

    Each site is tagged with the nation it operates in, which controls terminology, inspection labels and statutory sections. A school in England shows its Ofsted report; one in Wales shows Estyn; Scottish sites reference Education Scotland; Northern Irish sites reference the Education and Training Inspectorate. Editors cannot accidentally publish the wrong framework. The same tag sets date formats for term names, such as terms in England and sessions in Scotland.

    Each site speaks the language of its own education system.

  • Central policy library

    Group wide policies written once, versioned and published to every relevant site, with local addenda where a school needs them. Each document shows its approval date and owner. Trust or group leaders see a dashboard of which sites carry current versions and which still show an older copy.

    Policies match across the group and are easy to audit.

  • Welsh language support

    Colleges and universities in Wales are subject to Welsh Language Standards, and many Welsh schools teach through Welsh. We build full bilingual sites with parallel URLs, language switching on every page, separate search metadata for each language and editor warnings when one version falls behind the other.

    Welsh and English versions stay in step.

  • Statutory and compliance tracking

    A compliance view inside the CMS listing what each site must publish for its nation and type, such as information schools in England must publish online, and when each item was last reviewed. Missing or stale items are flagged to the site's editors and to the central team. Central staff can assign a fix to a named editor from the same view.

    Gaps are found by your team before inspectors or parents find them.

  • Course and campus data at scale

    For college groups and universities, a single course data model shared by every campus site, fed from your curriculum or student record system where it allows. Each course shows where it runs, study modes and progression, and the same data powers a group wide course search. Campus pages carry travel, parking and access details written by local staff who know them.

    Course details are entered once and correct everywhere.

  • Consumer law on fees and bookings

    Fees pages show the total including VAT, which has applied to independent school fees since January 2025, and mandatory extras under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 drip pricing rules now in force. Higher education providers also follow CMA consumer law guidance on clear course information. We build templates that make these disclosures hard to omit. Course pages state total costs, including any compulsory extras, before a learner applies.

    Prices and course information meet consumer law expectations.

  • Privacy and consent by design

    One cookie consent setup that meets PECR across every site, one privacy notice structure adapted for parents, pupils and adult learners, and forms that collect only what is needed. Analytics are configured so no personal data leaves your control, and the ICO Children's code is considered wherever pupils interact with the site.

    Consistent UK GDPR practice across every site.

  • Accessibility across every template

    Components are built and tested to WCAG 2.2 AA once, so every site inherits them. Public sector bodies publish accessibility statements, and we generate a template per site. Duties differ slightly by nation, with the Equality Act covering Great Britain and separate disability legislation in Northern Ireland, and we plan for both.

    Accessibility does not depend on each site's editor.

  • Group level reporting

    Dashboards for senior leaders showing enquiries, open event bookings, search performance and page speed by site, so the central team sees which schools or campuses need support. Reports use aggregate figures only and draw on analytics configured within UK GDPR. Leaders can filter by region, school phase or campus type.

    Leaders see how every site performs from one place.

Who this is for

Four kinds of UK education organisation we build platforms for.

National and group education websites fail for different reasons than single school sites. The problem is rarely design; it is governance, data and consistency across many editors and locations. As an education web development company UK groups can engage remotely, we plan around these four situations most often. Each brief below notes what usually comes first and what can follow in a later phase.

01

A multi-academy trust growing through new schools

Each school joining the trust arrives with its own old website, domain and habits. We move them onto a shared platform in a planned order, keep their identity, redirect old URLs and bring statutory pages into line. As a charitable company, the trust's Companies House details appear in every site footer. Trust wide vacancy listings, governance pages and annual reports sit on the trust site and link to each school.

Joining the platform becomes part of the school conversion plan.

02

An independent school group across regions

Group schools may sit in England and Scotland, with different curricula, inspection bodies and, in Scotland, charity rules from OSCR. We build a shared brand system with school level freedom, fees pages that handle VAT clearly, and international admissions sections for families applying from abroad.

03

A college group or multi-campus university

Learners search by subject and place, so course data must be accurate for every campus. Regulators differ by nation, with the Office for Students in England, Medr in Wales and the Scottish Funding Council in Scotland, and we label each campus site accordingly. Accessibility statements are needed for every public body site. In Northern Ireland, further education colleges fall under the Department for the Economy, and their sites reflect that.

04

A national tutoring or training provider

You recruit learners in many towns and cities, often online, so local landing pages must be genuinely useful rather than copies with a place name swapped. If you sell courses or tutoring plans online, cancellation rights under the Consumer Contracts Regulations, Strong Customer Authentication for card payments, and the DMCC subscription contract rules expected in 2027 shape the build.

Online payment is scoped as a separate ecommerce project.

How a national education website platform is delivered.

  1. 01Group discoveryVideo workshops with central marketing, IT, data protection and a sample of school or campus leads, plus an audit of every existing site.
  2. 02Governance modelWho owns what: central content, local content, approval steps, editor roles and the compliance checks each site must pass.
  3. 03Platform and design systemShared components, nation rules and brand variants designed and built once, tested for accessibility and speed before any site uses them.
  4. 04Pilot siteOne school or campus launched first, so editors, data feeds and redirects are proven on a real site before rollout.
  5. 05Phased rolloutRemaining sites migrated in agreed waves, each with its redirect map, content review and editor training, timed around local calendars.
  6. 06Central support and improvementMonitoring, security updates and new components delivered to every site, with reporting that guides the next round of improvements.

Technology

What we build this with.

Usually a headless CMS with multi-site support and a Next.js front end, or WordPress multisite for groups whose editors already know it. Hosting location, backups and access controls are agreed with your data protection officer, with UK or EU regions available.

01Web

  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Laravel
  • WordPress

02Commerce

  • Shopify Plus
  • WooCommerce
  • BigCommerce
  • Headless storefronts

03Data and cloud

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Docker

04Marketing and tracking

  • GA4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Search Console
  • Meta Pixel
  • Looker Studio

Questions groups ask about a national education website.

Each site is tagged by nation, and the platform applies the right rules.

Terminology, qualifications, inspection bodies and statutory publishing differ between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. We store these differences as configuration rather than leaving them to each editor, so a Welsh school sees Estyn and bilingual templates, a Scottish school sees Education Scotland and its own stages, and an English academy sees its statutory checklist. Adding a school in a new nation means applying an existing rule set. Northern Irish sites, for example, reference the Department of Education there and its own admissions arrangements.

Tell us what the business needs. We will tell you what to build first.

Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.

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