The Engagement Platform (TEP) provides schools and multi-academy trusts with a research-backed measurement tool for pupil, employee, and family engagement. The platform offers termly national benchmarking, demographic filtering, and expert-guided data review to help leaders turn insights into action on attendance, retention, and outcomes. TEP is cited as a case study in the UK Government's 2026 schools white paper, which expects all schools in England to monitor pupil engagement by 2029.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Schools and trusts lack a systematic, research-backed way to measure pupil, employee, and family engagement, which are evidenced lead indicators for attendance, staff retention, and pupil outcomes. Without reliable engagement data, leaders miss early warning signs and struggle to intervene before problems escalate, a gap that UK government policy now expects schools to address.
Solution
The Engagement Platform (TEP) provides a fixed, psychometrically tested question set that measures engagement across pupils, employees, and families, benchmarked nationally three times each year. The platform automatically collects responses in termly census windows, then populates an interactive dashboard with headline scores, trends, and demographic breakdowns. Leaders can explore data by groups, compare results against national and contextual benchmarks, and download tailored reports for trustees, governors, and Ofsted. A dedicated Community Engagement Team supports each school in interpreting data and sharing best practices across the TEP community.
Target Audience
Primary customers are individual schools (primaries, secondaries, and special schools) and multi-academy trusts across England, including senior leaders, headteachers, and middle leaders seeking to improve attendance, retention, and outcomes.
Features
- Fixed, research-backed question sets specifically designed for different pupil age groups (from Year 3), staff roles, and stakeholders, with the ability to add 1–2 custom questions per survey
- Three national census windows per year enabling benchmarking against national trends and comparable school types at the same point in time
- Automated data collection from school MIS systems via secure REST API or encrypted spreadsheet transfer, with 256-bit SSL/TLS encryption in transit and 128-bit AES at rest
- Interactive dashboard with precision benchmarking, demographic filtering, trend tracking, and downloadable reports for different audiences including trustees, governors, and leadership teams
- Anonymity safeguards including redaction of data for small groups and anonymous comment responses for employee surveys
- Optional enhancement modules for parent and family engagement and leadership and governance measurement, with the latter validated through a pilot census analyzed by Professor John Jerrim