From smarter workforce insights and streamlined compliance management to exciting innovations coming soon in Access Evo, discover how we're helping education organisations save time, gain visibility, and work more effectively.
Stop Building HR Reports Manually with People Insights Hub
How much time are you spending pulling together absence, turnover and workforce data?
People Insights Hub gives you a single view of your key people metrics in Access Evo, helping you spot trends faster, answer questions with confidence, and reduce the need for manual reporting and spreadsheets.
Track workforce health, monitor sickness absence, and review gender pay gap data all in one place, so you can spend less time gathering data and more time acting on it.
Included at no extra cost with your Access HR subscription.
Available dashboards
Staff Health Check
Sickness Absence Overview
Gender Pay Gap Overview
What's New? Add Pay Scale Description to Mail Merge Templates
You can now add Pay Scale Description to mail merge templates.
Previously, this information wasn't available as a merge field, limiting the detail you could include in documents such as annual salary review statements.
You can now add:
Pay Scale Number
Pay Scale Description
Both fields together
Benefits
✅ More flexible mail merge templates
✅ Support for different pay scale structures
✅ More detailed salary review statements and generated documents
Coming Soon: Evo Navigator
Imagine opening Access Evo and instantly seeing the tasks that need your attention, the actions you need to take, and the information most relevant to you.
That's exactly what's coming with Evo Navigator.
Designed around how people actually work, Evo Navigator becomes your personalised starting point in Access Evo, bringing together key actions, reminders, notifications and insights from across your Access solutions.
One screen. Less searching. Faster action.
Coming soon.
Free Schools & Academies Show Passes
Join us on 18-19 November at Stand J40 for expert insights on financial sustainability, operational efficiency and compliance.
Automate Annual Pay Progression
Spend less time managing annual increments.
We've enhanced the annual increment process to automatically create salary change records for eligible employees on supported negotiating bodies, ready for approval ahead of their increment date.
This helps reduce manual administration, ensures progression is managed consistently, and frees up valuable time for HR and payroll teams.
Key benefits
Automatically prepares salary changes ahead of increment dates
Supports existing approval workflows
Reduces manual processing and administration
Helps ensure employees progress correctly through their pay scale
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Customer Story: How AI Became LET Education Trust's Newest Team Member
What happens when AI can work with your trust's own data, surface insights, identify risks and answer questions in seconds?
As an early adopter of Access Evo, Michelle Williams, Chief Finance and Operations Officer at LET Education Trust, has been exploring exactly that.
Rather than spending hours pulling together data, teams can focus on analysing insights, making informed decisions and supporting their schools.
"It's like having another member of staff."
"I would describe this as having a personal assistant who is there at your beck and call every day, every minute of every day."
Discover why Michelle believes Access Evo can help trusts move from reactive working to proactive management.
New Article: The ROI of Consolidating School Finance Software
With school budgets under growing pressure and more maintained schools operating in deficit, local authorities need greater visibility, control and efficiency than ever before.
Our latest article explores how consolidating finance, budgeting, purchasing and payroll systems across schools can deliver benefits that go far beyond cost savings.
Learn how a unified approach can help:
Reduce duplication and administrative workload
Improve reporting and decision-making
Strengthen compliance
Increase visibility across schools
Missed the Access Evo Launch?
More than 1,000 education professionals joined us live to discover Access Evo for Education.
If you missed the event, or would like to revisit the highlights, you can now watch the full session on demand and see how Access Evo is set to transform the way schools, academies and trusts work.
Thank you for being part of the Access Education community. We'll continue to share product updates, practical tips and upcoming opportunities to help you get even more value from your solutions.