School apps for trusts and schools in all four UK nations.

English schools commonly run SIMS, Arbor or Bromcom. Scottish council schools sit on SEEMiS, and Northern Irish schools work through the C2k service. We build an integration layer that reads timetables, classes, contacts and attendance from each source through the routes its owner permits. Each connector is tested against a copy of real data before it goes live.

Keeping Children Safe in Education applies to schools in England, and its 2026 edition took effect on 1 September 2026. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separate guidance. Role permissions, retention rules and staff prompts are configured per school so each follows the guidance it is actually bound by.

Parents report absence with a reason code in a few taps, and the record lands in the register for the attendance team to confirm. For English state schools, the app keeps the MIS accurate, which matters now that daily register data is shared with the Department for Education and the local authority.

Teachers on a trip or at the gate sometimes need to record a worry before they reach a desk. The staff app captures a short note and passes it straight to the designated safeguarding lead through the recording system your school already uses, rather than storing a parallel copy that nobody audits.

Trips, photographs, medical treatment and biometric catering each need their own consent. In England and Wales, biometric processing needs parental consent under the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012. The app stores who agreed, when and to which version of the form. Changes to a form create a new version, so older consents stay linked to the wording parents saw.

Welsh-medium and bilingual schools need every screen, notification and form in Welsh, written properly, not machine translated at the last minute. We plan bilingual content from the first design so Welsh text fits layouts and parents choose their language once. Staff writing in English can request a Welsh version before sending.

Central teams see message reach, consent completion and absence reporting rates by school, without opening pupil records they have no reason to view. Access is limited by role, so a trust attendance lead sees patterns while only school staff see names. Figures refresh daily so leaders discuss current patterns.

Families with several children across different schools in the trust book slots for each child from one screen, choosing in-person or video appointments where the school offers both. Teachers see a running order on their phones, and the office no longer rebuilds timetables by hand from paper reply slips.

Snow, heating failures and building incidents close schools at short notice. Priority alerts go out by push notification, with SMS or email as a fallback, and show who has opened them, so office staff know which families still need a call. Templates for common closures are written in advance, so the office only fills in the details on the day.

We design to WCAG 2.2 AA so parents using screen readers, larger text or switch controls can report an absence or sign a form without help. The Equality Act 2010 covers England, Scotland and Wales, while Northern Ireland has its own disability law, and both expect reasonable adjustments. We test with assistive technology on both iOS and Android.