Admissions+ for faith schools · Church, Catholic and other religious schools

The extra steps, without the extra paper.

A faith school runs the whole national process and then a second one on top: the Supplementary Information Form, references from ministers, rankings back to the local authority, and the LA list reconciled against your own. Admissions+ runs all of it online, in one place.

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Primary, secondary, sixth form or all-through SIF, references, rankings, reconciliation

SIF round · September entry All online

SIFs completed214 / 240

References returned198 / 214

On the LA list, no SIF9 families

Emma: 16 references outstanding. Reminders to those ministers drafted for your OK.

Illustrative

The faith round today

Two hundred SIFs. All of them on paper.

Forms printed, posted and returned. References chased by phone because a minister has mislaid the sheet. Rankings typed into a spreadsheet for the LA, then the LA list checked against your own by eye - looking for the families who never sent a SIF at all.

Paper SIFs References by post Rankings by hand Reconciling by eye

The SIF pile · week 4 26 unaccounted for

SIF returned, reference attached142

SIF returned, waiting on the minister56

Posted, nothing back17

On the LA list, no SIF at all9

Every one of those 26 is a family who may qualify on faith grounds and will not be ranked for it.

Illustrative · a paper SIF round

How it works

From enquiry to entry, in six steps.

No hours spent consolidating endless pieces of paper and spreadsheets. One process, from the SIF going live on your website to the final list of families completing your data collection form.

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Step 01 · Supplementary Information Forms

Your SIF, live on your website.

Customise the SIF template to your admissions policy - your criteria, your wording, as many extra questions as you need - then add the link to your site for parents to apply.

What you control

The template is a starting point, not a straitjacket. Every faith school ranks differently, so the form matches your policy rather than a supplier's idea of one.

Features

It does not stop at the SIF.

Faith admissions is part of Admissions+, not a separate product. Whether you are a primary, a secondary, a sixth form or all-through, the rest of the cycle runs in the same place.

Marketing, events and meetings

Automated emails, events created and promoted, bookings managed and meeting invitations sent.

Taster days

Organise taster days with smooth coordination and effortless planning, however many groups you run.

Applications and references

Receive, track and manage applications - and receive references automatically from other Applicaa schools.

Offers and onboarding

Make offers if you wish, then invite applicants to proceed with onboarding and data collection.

See it for your intake Nursery & primary Year 7 transition Sixth forms

Get to know your cohort

The most convenient way to apply.

Simple, straightforward online forms, from any mobile device.

Empower parents. Each applying parent has their own account to view their entire application journey.

A personalised experience. Customise the existing form templates and add as many extra questions as needed.

Meeting the needs of everyone. Parents complete forms in their chosen language.

Live tracking of progress. Every action logged and time-stamped, so you can see who needs help.

Meet Emma

The chasing, done for you.

Emma opens the SIF round, drafts reminders for families and ministers, and answers parent questions from your published policy. Confirm-first on every change. Meet her properly.

51% of all support chats resolved end to end, no human needed Applicaa platform data

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“Open the SIF for September entry”

The SIF is ready to publish. Dates, year groups and guidance are shown for your approval.

On your terms

Shows you every change and waits for your OK before anything happens
Never edits student records, never writes to your MIS
Never takes part in ranking or admissions decisions
Your data is never used to train AI models
Runs entirely in the EU on AWS Bedrock, with Anthropic as the model provider

Integration

The ultimate partner for your MIS.

Applicaa does not replace your MIS, it enhances it. Religion, first language, ethnicity and every other admissions field transfer across with full technical integration - duplicates caught before they land, user-defined fields supported, nothing re-keyed. Cannot see yours? Talk to us anyway; more are in progress, including SchoolBase.

What schools say

Off the paper pile, for good.

Previously we had piles and piles of paper to search through... now it's massively improved because it's fully automated online. Religious information can just be uploaded to the site - which is amazing - and we can just see it on the screen. It's a far more efficient process now.

MD

Mark Duncan

The Coopers' Company and Coborn School

The SIF form for student references takes minutes to complete online. No more paper, no more postal delay and easy for our ministers to use.

SV

Sally Van Deet Meer

Saint Cecilia's Church of England School

Where faith admissions fits

The SIF is a step, not a system.

Faith admissions is an extra layer on top of the intake you already run - so it lives inside Admissions+ rather than beside it. Whichever intake is yours, the SIF, the references and the rankings sit on the same student record as everything else.

Reception intake Nursery & primary Faith criteria on the Reception round, then onboarding, consents and MIS transfer in the same place. See the page Year 7 intake Secondary SIFs and references alongside open evenings, transition questionnaires, CTFs and form groups. See the page Post-16 intake Sixth forms Faith-designated sixth forms rank on religious criteria too, in the same system as applications and results day. See the page

One platform behind all of it

One student record, one MIS integration and one AI agent - across every intake a faith school runs, plus Options+, Data+ and the rest when you need them.

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