The 10 Challenges for Trust Leaders

Running any group of schools means juggling big challenges — different school types, different needs, different data. Earwig brings it all your pupil performance data together in one simple, powerful platform covering...

Teaching evidence
Target setting
Progress tracking
Parent engagement
Reporting
Performance analytics
We make it easy to get everyone working the same way, seeing the same picture, and moving in the same direction.

For Parents and Carers

If your child is learning outside of school, you may be juggling a lot — different providers, progress updates, meetings, reports... It can be hard to stay on top of everything and even harder to feel truly involved.

Earwig puts you in the picture.

One system for every school in your trust

Challenge Finding software that works across mainstream, special, and alternative provisions.

Earwig fix One harmonised assessment platform that adapts to every setting and covers every stage from PMLD to qualification accreditation.

Shared teaching approach, your way

Challenge Aligning lesson structures and pedagogy across the trust.

Earwig fix Tools to support harmonised frameworks and consistent teaching  — while keeping space for each school’s character.

EHCP targets made simple

Challenge Managing and tracking progress with individualised EHCP outcomes.

Earwig fix An easy mechanism for creating long and short term targets based on previous performance, which leads to clear, measurable, progress tracking and effective local authority annual reviews.

Smarter training, lower costs

Challenge Big staff numbers mean big training budgets.

Earwig fix An intuitive system that staff can pick up quickly, cutting training time and costs. Full training and online support.  Combining training across schools saves even more.

Trust-wide data you can trust

Challenge Individualised and therefore un-comparable performance data.

Earwig fix Clever, AI supported, analytics that make sense of the data and shows you the real picture across every educational setting and the group as a whole.

A single window into all your schools

Challenge Limited visibility of daily activity in each setting.

Earwig fix Each trust leader has a single login which gives them real time access to all the teaching evidence and progress information created by teachers in each unit within the group.

Always Ofsted Ready

Challenge Ensuring that all your settings are always ready to put their best foot forward when Ofsted call.

Earwig fix We can’t guarantee you an upgrade every time, but Earwig schools have an amazing record when it comes to Ofsted ratings. Ask about it.

Enterprise level security

Challenge Ensuring that all legal documentation, system integrity, GDPR, and other governance standards are met, from the get-go.

Earwig fix Earwig is set up to ensure that the high security, governance and other standards required by modern education groups are integral to the system and setup process and are clearly evidenced.

Keep your software costs really low

Challenge Keeping ballooning software costs within budget while providing your staff with the latest tools and support.

Earwig fix The three different versions of Earwig ensure that you pay only for the functionality that each setting needs. On top of that, there are big discounts for multi-school applications and even bigger ones for centrally billed three year contracts.

Your AI Strategy, nailed

Challenge Meeting the DfE requirements to ‘show leadership’ when it comes to creating and implementing your AI strategy.

Earwig fix Earwig comes with an AI development strategy for the next few years built into it. This goes beyond the DfE guidance and will enable you to improve teaching and learning throughout your organisation while improving productivity significantly.

Why trusts choose Earwig


One platform for all provisions
Comparable, accurate data across the trust
Less training, more doing
AI-powered analytics and insights
Top level data protection and security
Further AI based tools to improve productivity and reduce costs
Consistency without killing creativity

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