Data+For every school · the September data check
Annual data collection in days.
Annual data collection for your on-roll students. Parents check and update their own details from a phone, in their own language, and the corrections go straight back to your MIS. For SIMS and Arbor schools.
Emma: 103 families still silent. Reminders drafted - parents make the changes, you approve them.
A checking sheet per pupil. A fortnight of re-keying.
Paper home in book bags, back crumpled or not at all, corrections re-keyed by hand while the census deadline closes in - and a hundred families have returned nothing. Census accuracy is funding accuracy.
Mobile · mum
07700 900···
Dietary · updated
Now vegetarian
Photo consent · 2027
Refreshed for this year
Both children handled in one pass · siblings (verify)
Visible to parents · saved automatically
Confirm what is right. Fix what is wrong. Thirty seconds.
Pre-filled details for review from a phone, in the family's own language: contacts, consents, medical and dietary in one pass. The silent hundred get nudged automatically - the office chases only the true stragglers.
Collected once. Re-key nothing.
Parents make the corrections, and once you have collected what you need the integration tools transfer it straight back into SIMS or Arbor. Nobody re-keys a record.
Amir K · Year 4
New emergency contact added
Ella M · Year 6
Medical change · exception flagged
Approved changes → SIMS
Duplicates caught · census-ready
You review. The system re-keys nothing. Completion report attached for census evidence.
Four steps, once a year.
Nobody prints a form, and nobody re-keys a record.
Import your students
Bring your on-roll students and their existing data into the platform from your school MIS.
Invite parents to Data+
Send a welcome email from the integrated communications system with their account details.
Parents review their data
Parents review their existing information on a pre-populated form and make any updates.
Export straight into your MIS
Once you have collected everything you need, the integration tools transfer it back into your MIS.
Accurate and reliable, by design.
Bad data is usually a form problem. Data+ stops the errors being typed in the first place.
Tell me moreAddresses are entered using a postcode lookup service.
Names and phone numbers can be set to specific formats.
Names are automatically trimmed of leading and trailing spaces.
Required fields can be enforced to ensure complete submissions.
Conditional questions ensure only relevant follow-ups are visible.
Data+ does the hard work.
Reduce administrative burden
No hours spent organising spreadsheets, printing letters and waiting for responses.
Customisable forms
Tailor your data collection form however you choose - the system is simple enough that anyone can do it.
Automated follow-up emails
Late forms do not hold you up. Send reminders to the parents who have not responded.
Staff collaboration
Staff log in with tailored permissions that control their access and data visibility.
Live tracking of parental progress.
All actions are logged and time-stamped, so you can monitor how much of the process is complete - and identify the families who need help.
Easily track progressPersonalised landing pages.
Consistent branding, carried over from your website.
Your colours, your school photos, your words.
Unique registration pages for different year groups.
Meet Emma
The data manager's September assistant.
Emma opens the collection, adds this year's consent question, chases the incomplete and answers parents' "why do you need this?" on the website. Parents make the changes; staff approve them; Emma never edits pupil records or writes to your MIS.
"Open this year's data collection to parents"
This year's collection live by asking, new consent question included. Change shown before it saves. (Verify for Data+ module.)
"Remind every family that hasn't completed"
The chase becomes one approval, not a fortnight of slips - and "why do you need this?" gets answered instantly, with sources, so forms get finished.
"How many families still haven't confirmed?"
Plain-English completion answers. Ask, don't query.
Write-back through the integration you already trust.
Approved changes transfer back through a full technical integration with SIMS and Arbor - the two systems Data+ currently supports. No re-keying, no CSV shuffle. Talk to us about other MIS; more are in progress.
Ready for a September in days, not weeks?
Book a meeting and we will time it against your current process.