Part 1 of the offer
Bring appropriate trust information together.
A connected data foundation is the groundwork that makes trust-wide reporting, comparison and AI assistance possible—and trustworthy.
What this involves
Eight practical steps
- Map existing systems across the central team and every school
- Identify the information that is genuinely relevant to management questions
- Establish ownership for each source and each definition
- Create agreed data definitions so terms mean the same thing everywhere
- Introduce appropriate data connections, subject to supplier approval
- Monitor data quality and make gaps visible rather than hidden
- Record provenance for every material figure
- Create a secure foundation for reporting and AI
Deployment
Architecture is agreed individually
There is no single answer. What is appropriate depends on your existing environment, data protection position and supplier arrangements.
The trust's cloud environment
Hosted inside infrastructure the trust controls.
A securely managed environment
Managed on the trust's behalf under agreed terms.
Approved APIs
Where a supplier provides and permits programmatic access.
Controlled scheduled transfers
Agreed extracts on an agreed timetable.
Secure imports
Structured files loaded through a controlled process.
Public data
DfE and other published information, with sources shown.
Manually maintained operational information
Records held directly in the platform where no system exists.
Integration availability depends on supplier APIs, permissions and commercial arrangements. No connector is described as live unless it has been built and verified for your trust.
Where information lives today
Your information is already there. It is just in different places.
These are examples of the information sources a trust may hold. Each source would be introduced only where lawful, appropriate and agreed.
Arbor
ProposedMIS
Bromcom
ProposedMIS
iSAMS
ProposedMIS
SIMS
Subject to supplier approvalMIS
CPOMS
Not currently availableSafeguarding record system
HR and payroll
Controlled importPeople
Finance
Controlled importFinance
Assessment platforms
ProposedEducation
SEND systems
ProposedEducation
Wellbeing systems
ProposedPeople
Estates information
Manual data sourceOperations
DfE and public data
Controlled importExternal
Spreadsheets
Controlled importLocal records
Local operational records
Manual data sourceLocal records
Product names are used only as examples of systems a trust may use. This does not imply an existing integration, endorsement or affiliation.
Minimal data
Many management questions do not need pupil-level detail
Where a question can be answered with aggregated or cohort-level information, that is what we introduce.
What does “Data lake” mean?
A controlled central environment that brings together information from different systems for analysis.
What does “Predictive analytics” mean?
Using previous and current patterns to estimate where a problem may be more likely to emerge.
What does “Agentic AI” mean?
Software that can carry out a sequence of preparation steps and then return to a person for a decision.
What does “Semantic model” mean?
An agreed set of definitions so that a term such as “persistent absence” means the same thing everywhere.
What does “Data provenance” mean?
A record of where a number came from, when it was collected and what was done to it.
What does “Machine learning” mean?
A way of finding patterns in previous information to make estimates about new information.
Request a MAT Data and AI Readiness Review
We will look at what your trust already holds, what is missing and what could realistically be connected first.