Administrative burden in schools

A lack of visibility of what’s been done and what needs doing means multiple teams and staff members end up completing the same work, often working less efficiently rather than more.

Essential information is kept in separate systems, with no single point of oversight. This means staff can’t find the information they need at the time they need it, and patterns that would be clear if data was connected are easily missed.

Staff spend valuable time inputting information manually, which increases the risk of errors and makes it harder to make connections between data points that could be used to suggest improvements.

Parents can’t all access the same information and end up asking the same questions – but when each question is asked in a different way to a different member of staff, no-one has oversight of the enquiries that keep coming up.

Spend more time manually inputting data than on proactive, strategic planning and decision-making. They have very little time and risk making errors that have knock-on impacts elsewhere.

Are already at capacity. Our 2026 Wellbeing report found only 3% of teachers complete their work within their contracted hours, with most citing administrative tasks such as creating personalised learning plans as the main reason for working overtime.

Spend valuable time on admin that could be spent supporting their staff and students. Where they do have time, many also lack the top-level oversight required to make fully informed and data led strategic decisions.

Have to go out of their way to engage with their child’s learning. The more admin associated with a parent-teacher meeting, club sign up or trip payment, the harder it is for parents to engage – and the less likely it is that their child will participate, too.

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